PT129.S3.Q20

PrepTest 129 - Section 3 - Question 20

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Ethicist: Support Every moral action is the keeping of an agreement, and Support keeping an agreement is nothing more than an act of securing mutual benefit. ████████ ████████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████████████████ ███ █████ ████████ ██████████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███ █████ ████████

Method of Reasoning

Two premises form a conditional chain:

Moral action → keeping agreement → securing mutual benefit

Another premise asserts that some “keeping agreement” are NOT moral actions.

The conclusion is a valid inference from claim that “keeping agreement → securing mutual benefit” and “some ‘keeping agreement is NOT a moral action’”:

some “securing mutual benefit” are NOT moral actions

(If we know that ‘A → B → C’ and ‘Some B are NOT A’, then we can conclude ‘Some C are NOT A.’)

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20.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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