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The stimulus comes to the conclusion that if someone lacks self-understanding, they can't understand others. But what support is offered for this conclusion? Simply the same claim again, that without self-understanding, a person can't understand others.
What's worse, this restatement is the only support given in the argument. The rest of the stimulus broadly discusses self-understanding, but doesn't say anything more to justify the idea that self-understanding is necessary to understand others. So the argument's conclusion is just a restatement of its premise: the stimulus commits circular reasoning.
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mistakes something that ██ █████████ ██ █████ █████ █ █████████ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ █████ █████ ████ █████████
The stimulus only makes a single conditional claim: that
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The argument's conclusion is about self-understanding being a necessary condition for understanding others. Whether people want to understand themselves doesn't affect that conclusion, so even if that possibility is overlooked, that wouldn't be a flaw.
blames people for █████████ ███ █████ ████ ██████ ████████████ ██ ████ ███████████
The argument doesn't make any accusations of blame. Because (C) doesn't accurately describe the argument, it can't be the correct flaw.
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The argument doesn't specifically define self-understanding, but that's fine, because the way that term is used isn't vague. It's simply used to mean a person's understanding of themself.
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The argument concludes that
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