Self-study
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Summarize Argument
The author concludes that there are exceptions to the general rule that people should practice what they preach. As support, he draws an analogy between two examples: just as physicians don’t need to be healthy to treat patients, logicians don’t need to be logical to discuss logic.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author analogizes between two things that are dissimilar in relevant ways. Just because physicians don’t need to be healthy to effectively treat patients does not mean that logicians don’t need to be logical to discuss logic.
The author fails to take into account the fact that, while a physician’s healthy doesn’t necessarily affect her work as a physician, a logician’s ability to be logical certainly affects his work as a logician. His reasoning is questionable because his analogy ignores this key dissimilarity.
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The author analogizes between two things that are dissimilar in relevant ways. While an unhealthy physician can still effectively treat patients, an illogical logician can’t effectively discuss logic. By analogizing between the two, the author fails to take into account this dissimilarity.
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(B) suggests that some extremely unhealthy doctors are not exceptions to the rule that you should practice what you preach. Even if this is true, it doesn’t address whether unhealthy physicians and illogical logicians are relevantly similar to one another.
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The author draws an analogy between illogical logicians and unhealthy physicians, not incompetent physicians. Regardless, whether one causes more harm than the other is irrelevant. The author just points to them as examples of exceptions to a general rule.
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The author doesn’t make any claims about whether it’s harder to become logical or to become healthy. Instead, he supports his argument by drawing an analogy between unhealthy physicians and illogical logicians, failing to take into account that the two are relevantly dissimilar.
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Actually, it is necessary for logicians to be logical in order to competently discuss logic.