Also struggled with this question for a while. Here's my best shot...
Stimulus:
"...fear of retaliation makes a would be aggressor nation hesitate before attacking and is often sufficient to deter it altogether from attacking."
Fear of retaliation ==> deter attack.
"Clearly, then, to maintain military deterrence, a nation would have to be believed to have retaliatory power so great that a potential aggressor nation would have reason to think that it could not defend it self against such retaliation"
=
"if you make people believe that you're so aggressive that another nation can't defend itself against you, then you can maintain military deterrence"
believed to have retaliatory power ==> deter attack
(C)
"One nation's failing to attack another establishes that the nation that fails to attack believes that it could not withstand a retaliatory attack from another nation."
=
"if you deterred an attack, that means that you they must have believed you to have retaliatory power"
deter attack ==> believed to have retaliatory power
This is sufficiency/necessity confusion.
(D)
"It is in the interests of a nation that seeks deterrence and has unsurpassed military power to let potential aggressors against it become aware of its power of retaliatory attack."
=
"If you want to deter, then you want your potential aggressors to believe your have retaliatory power"
deter ==> believed to have retalitory power
The hardest part about this question is the translation from english to Lawgic. I think if i tried to do this question again, I would ditch completely using lawgic and just use intuition, because intuitively, (C) doesn't make sense (there could be other reasons for not attacking), but (D) is a pretty solid parallel to the stimulus.
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Also struggled with this question for a while. Here's my best shot...
Stimulus:
"...fear of retaliation makes a would be aggressor nation hesitate before attacking and is often sufficient to deter it altogether from attacking."
Fear of retaliation ==> deter attack.
"Clearly, then, to maintain military deterrence, a nation would have to be believed to have retaliatory power so great that a potential aggressor nation would have reason to think that it could not defend it self against such retaliation"
=
"if you make people believe that you're so aggressive that another nation can't defend itself against you, then you can maintain military deterrence"
believed to have retaliatory power ==> deter attack
(C)
"One nation's failing to attack another establishes that the nation that fails to attack believes that it could not withstand a retaliatory attack from another nation."
=
"if you deterred an attack, that means that you they must have believed you to have retaliatory power"
deter attack ==> believed to have retaliatory power
This is sufficiency/necessity confusion.
(D)
"It is in the interests of a nation that seeks deterrence and has unsurpassed military power to let potential aggressors against it become aware of its power of retaliatory attack."
=
"If you want to deter, then you want your potential aggressors to believe your have retaliatory power"
deter ==> believed to have retalitory power
The hardest part about this question is the translation from english to Lawgic. I think if i tried to do this question again, I would ditch completely using lawgic and just use intuition, because intuitively, (C) doesn't make sense (there could be other reasons for not attacking), but (D) is a pretty solid parallel to the stimulus.
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