PT134.S2.Q16

PrepTest 134 - Section 2 - Question 16

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Support Anyone who believes in extraterrestrials believes in UFOs. ███ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ████████████ ████████ █████████ █ ██████ ██ █████████████████ ██ █████ ██ █████

Method of Reasoning

The argument starts by detailing the relationship between two beliefs (everyone who believes in extraterrestrials also believes in UFOs) then moves to a conclusion about the validity of those beliefs (because the existence of UFOs has been disproven, a belief in extraterrestrials is also false).

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author erroneously conflates beliefs with facts. If the author had been discussing facts, and one fact being true required a second fact to be true, we could conclude that if the second fact is untrue, the other fact is untrue. However, the stimulus is about beliefs. In the stimulus, to hold one belief (a belief in extraterrestrials), you must hold a second belief (a belief in UFOs). However, just because the second belief has been proven to be untrue, that doesn’t necessarily mean the other belief is untrue.

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16.

Which one of the following █████████ ████████ ██████ █████████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████

a

Anyone who believes ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ████████████ ████ █████ ███ ██ █████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ████████ ███████

b

Anyone who believes ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████

c

Anyone who believes ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████

d

Anyone who believes ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ███████████ ██ █████

e

Anyone who believes ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ████████████ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ██ ████ █████ ██ █ ████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ █████

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