PT137.S2.Q21

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PrepTest 137 - Section 2 - Question 21

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Support The presence of bees is necessary for excellent pollination, Support which, in turn, usually results in abundant fruits and vegetables. ████████████ █ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ ██ ███████████ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ █ ███ ███ █████████ ██████ █████ █████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ███ █████████ █████ ████ ████ ███ ██ ████ █████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ████ █████████ ████████████

Summarize Argument

We have a series of conditional statement premises:

Excellent pollination → bees

Beehive → bees

Keeping bees economical → use for homegrown honey

Intermediate conc.:

Gardeners without a use for homegrown honey will tend not to have beehives.

Main conc.:

Gardeners without a use for homegrown honey won’t have excellent pollination.

Identify and Describe Flaw

In the jump from the int. conc. to the main conc., the author assumes that failing to have beehives implies there won’t be excellent pollination. This reverses the statement “beehive → bees.” Beehives ensure bees, but that doesn’t mean beehives are necessary for bees.

Also, in the jump to the int. conc., the author assumes that if keeping bees isn’t economical for someone, they probably won’t have beehives.

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The argument doesn’t concern whether it’s a good idea to have beehives. So other benefits of honey are irrelevant.

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The argument doesn’t confuse the statement about pollination. If bees aren’t present, pollination can’t happen. What the argument confuses is whether beehives are necessary for the presence of bees.

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The argument doesn’t use the statement about fruits and vegetables as part of how it reaches the conclusion. So there’s no confusion about that statement.

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Although we know beehives ensure bees, that doesn’t mean they’re necessary for bees. So we can’t infer from the lack of beehives that there won’t be excellent pollination. There can still be excellent pollination, because there can still be bees present.

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There is no causal claim concerning beehives and excellent pollination. The author assumes that lack of beehives implies lack of excellent pollination, but that isn’t a causal claim.

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25% 144

153

75% 162

Analysis

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Flaw or descriptive weakening

Stimulus Tags

Conditional reasoning

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