PT110.S3.Q10

PrepTest 110 - Section 3 - Question 10

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Philosopher: Support People are not intellectually well suited to live in large, bureaucratic societies. ██████████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ ██ ████ ████ ██ ███████ █████████ █████ ████ ██ █████████

Summarize Argument

The philosopher concludes that, if people can find happiness at all, they can only do so in smaller communities, like villages. She supports this by saying that people aren’t intellectually well suited to live in large, bureaucratic societies.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The philosopher’s reasoning is flawed because she makes a key assumption. By concluding that people can only find happiness in small communities because they aren’t intellectually well suited to large ones, the philosopher must assume that people cannot find happiness in a society that they aren’t intellectually well suited to.

She ignores the fact that some people might be able to find happiness in large bureaucratic societies, even though they’re not intellectually well suited to them.

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10.

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a

no one can ████ ██ █████ ██████ ██ █ ███████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ██ ██ ███ ██████████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████

b

the primary purpose ██ █████ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ██ ████ ██████ █████

c

all societies that ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ███ █████

d

anyone who lives ██ █ ███████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ███████████ ████████████ ███ ████ █████████

e

everyone is willing ██ ████ ██ ████████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ █████

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