PT58.S4.Q19 - Anyone who believes in democracy

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• BinghamtonDave Alum Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  March 2018 8716 karma

  The general form for this argument is that:
  Believe democracy——>High regard wisdom’

  We know that our particular case:
  believes that a work of art that is popular is unlikely to be good

  Therefore we conclude:
  our particular case:
  Believe in democracy

  This is a contrapositive argument form.
  We are given as a general rule:
  A——>B
  We are told something about a person: lets call that Z
  We conclude A
  The sufficient assumption here is that if someone is an elitist who believes Z then that person fails the necessary condition of believing in democracy: ie high regard for wisdom of masses. Allowing us to contrapose back to:
  Believe in democracy
  Best exemplified in (B)

  An analogous argument might be something like this:
  Anyone who is a good mixed martial artist has a well rounded set of skills that encompass the important disciplines.
  David has never wrestled in his life
  Therefore David is not a good mixed martial artist

  The possession of no wrestling experience fails the necessary condition of good mixed martial artist: a well rounded set of skills that encompass the important discipline, and is thus our sufficient assumption.

  Form you want to memorize to make this process easier in the future:
  A---->B
  We are given a C
  We conclude:
  A

  Sufficient assumption: C---->B

  David
• LsatDrifter Member

  March 2018 42 karma

  omg, I feel like an idiot!!! when you translated it to C--->B I had that translation but scratched it out.
• BinghamtonDave Alum Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  March 2018 8716 karma

  @LsatDrifter no worries, every mistake we make we can learn from.