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PT146.S2.Q22

msdhir547

Wednesday, Sep 22 2021

I did choose C, but re-examining it I think one key thing for me is that the argument's conclusion is that "watching yourself exercise can lead you to exercise more". Not that it will work for 100% of people. So the conclusion is perfectly capable of accommodating the possibility that highly motivated participants as well as the section of the general public that is highly motivated are not motivated by watching themselves exercise.

I still think D is such a stretch, lol. But it is the best answer choice to me once I factor in the above.

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PT117.S2.Q9

msdhir547

Saturday, Aug 21 2021

Still kind of confused since under AC C isn't it possible that a wine exists in which the reputation of the vineyard is bad but the materials and labor is so high that it inflates the price up. Thus it is possible that reputation always indicates the quality of the wines, but also that an expensive wine is not always a good wine. #help

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PT113.S4.Q20

msdhir547

Saturday, Aug 14 2021

Going to write this out for those like me who were thrown off by the stimulus' use of the word "primarily" and ruled out AC A. It's a bit long, and it may be overcomplicated to those who got the question instantly.

So, if you're like me, then when you read in the stimulus that "one who aids others primarily out of a desire for praise does not deserve praise for that aid" you thought to yourself, well the word "primarily" indicates that there can be secondary desires to your actions. The stimulus does not say that one of those secondary desires cannot be the desire to help others.

So if we take the inverse of AC A, which is basically "it is possible for one to be motivated for the praise of others as well as want to help others", wouldn't that be covered by the argument?

But that's precisely the problem. The thing that made it click for me is the stimulus' usage of the word "a" in "people merit praise only for those actions motivated by a desire to help others." Not "the desire" or "the primary desire". A desire.

Under this premise, it would be possible for someone to have a primary desire for praise instead of helping others, and a secondary desire to help others, and they would get away with meriting praise. But that goes directly against the conclusion which says that the primary desire cannot be for praise.

So, to solve this, we must assume that even if there can be secondary desires to helping people, there can be no overlap in an action's motivations between the desire to help people and the desire for praise. The desire to help people could even be a secondary desire to a different primary desire (maybe religion or something, idk), but it just cannot be a secondary desire to the desire for praise. Alternatively perhaps AC A would have clicked more if it said "an action that is primarily motivated by a desire..." under this analysis.