PT9.S4.Q4

PrepTest 9 - Section 4 - Question 4

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Only if the electorate is moral and intelligent will a democracy function well.

Structure: Conditional Rule

The stimulus gives us a conditional rule: only if the electorate is moral and intelligent will a democracy function well. The "only if" marks a necessary condition, so we can write this out as:

function well → moral AND intelligent
Potential Inferences

The question asks us what we can logically infer from the stimulus. Since we just have one conditional statement, let's make sure we understand it and its contrapositive. Again, the statement translates to:

function well → moral AND intelligent

By the contrapositive: /moral OR /intelligent → /function well

So we know that if we see any well-functioning democracy, the electorate must be both moral and intelligent. And if the electorate is either not moral or not intelligent (or both), then a democracy won't function well.

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