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The author comes to the conclusion that parents wishing to provide a strong foundation for their children’s musical ability must give their children formal instruction. This is because a strong foundation in music requires a good musical education. Further, a good musical education often includes formal instruction.
The author claims that formal instruction is always a necessary condition for a strong musical foundation, just because formal instruction is sometimes part of a necessary condition for a strong musical foundation. This fails to consider that it might be possible to provide a good musical education without formal instruction.
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The domain of the argument is limited to parents who want to provide their children with a strong musical foundation, so it’s not relevant whether musical education might come from elsewhere—then it wouldn’t be the parents providing it.
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This argument is only about parents who want to provide their children with a strong musical foundation. What the children want doesn’t change the steps a parent would need to take to achieve that goal.
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The author’s conclusion is that formal instruction is a necessary condition for a strong foundation for musical ability. Whether or not formal instruction is a sufficient condition is irrelevant.
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The author concludes that formal instruction is necessary for a strong foundation, because it’s often part of a good musical education, which is necessary for a strong foundation. However, “often” being included doesn’t make formal instruction necessary for a good education.
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The author only states that a good musical education is necessary to have a strong musical foundation. Whether or not a strong musical foundation is necessary to be a good musician isn’t relevant to the argument.
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