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Hello all!!
Can someone please explain this? I thought I understood suf vs. nec, but then I got to this question. It just won't click what is happening in the argument, and the videos are not helping me as much.
Thanks!
Caitlin
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The book argues people who are successful in business (sufficient condition) have benefitted from a lot of luck (necessary condition).
It can be diagrammed like this: success --> luck
The stimulus them goes on the say that the argument is false because rather success (sufficient condition) requires a lot of hard work (necessary condition).
It can be diagrammed like this: success --> hard work
This is an error of reasoning because the stimulus implies that if "success --> hard work" is true then "success --> luck" must be false. However, both of these can be true as the same time.
C is correct because if the book author's argument had been misinterpreted as them saying that anyone who is lucky is successful (luck [sufficient condition] --> success [necessary condition]), then this would be at odds with the "success --> hard work" principle. It would suggest that luck alone is sufficient to be successful; this is something we know to be false based on the last sentence of the stimulus. However, that is not what the book said; rather is said "success --> luck".