PT138.S4.Q17

PrepTest 138 - Section 4 - Question 17

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Humankind would not have survived, as it clearly has, if our ancestors had not been motivated by the desire to sacrifice themselves when doing so would ensure the survival of their children or other close relatives. ███ █████ ████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ██ █ ████ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ █████████ ████ ██ █████ █████████ ███████████

Method of Reasoning

The argument proceeds by establishing two conditional relationships:

(1) If our ancestors were not motivated by the desire to sacrifice themselves, humanity wouldn’t have survived.

(2) If our ancestors were motivated to sacrifice themselves, then they were behaving altruistically.

It then takes the contrapositive of the first statement to create a conditional chain, before validly concluding that the presence of the first sufficient condition (our ancestors surviving) implies the presence of the last necessary condition (our ancestors being altruistic).

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17.

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a

Students do not █████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ████ █████ █████████ █████████ █████ ████ ████████ ████ ████ ███████████ ████████ ████ ████████ ██ █████ █████ ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██████ █████ ████ █████

b

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c

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d

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e

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