Self-study
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Summary
For a community to succeed, its members must face unpleasant realities and talk about them honestly. Why? A community whose members don’t trust one another can’t succeed.
Missing Connection
The argument says that for a community to succeed its members must trust each other, then concludes that for a community to succeed its members must, therefore, face unpleasant realities and speak about them honestly. We can infer the argument’s conclusion if we assume that for a community’s members to trust each other, they must be willing to face unpleasant realities and speak about them honestly.
21.
The sociologist's conclusion follows logically ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████
a
Sincerity is required ██ █████████ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ████ ██████
According to the premises, for a community to succeed, its members must trust one another. If (A) is true, we can infer that community members must be willing to face unpleasant realities and speak about them honestly for their community to succeed, which is the argument’s conclusion.
b
The more sincere ███ ████ █████████ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ █████████ ██ ██ ████████
This just restates what’s implied by the argument’s conclusion. The correct answer choice must verify that conclusion.
c
A community sometimes ███ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ █████████ ██ ███████████ ██████
The correct answer choice must help explain why, for a community to succeed, its members must be willing to face unpleasant realities and speak about them honestly. (C) doesn’t address this.
d
Unless a community's ███████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████████
The argument isn’t about what makes a community’s members sincere. It’s about what makes a community succeed.
e
A community's failure ██ █████ ██████ ██ ███ ████████ █████████████ ██ ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ██ ███████ ████ █████████
The argument isn’t concerned with what makes a community fail. It’s concerned with what makes a community succeed.