#25 - Cecile's association requires public disclosure of an

[Naj]

• PDCA= public disclosure required by Cecile's association
  
  PD = public disclosure required (in general)
  
  ADC = Cecile is authorized to disburse funds
  
  
  The stim says: "Cecile, an officer who is not authorized to disburse funds",

[James Finch]

Hi Naj,

Did you have a question about this LR question?

[Naj]

Hi,

Yes, I do. The stim says: "Cecile, an officer who is not authorized to disburse funds", but the diagram says:
"Cecile is authorized to disburse funds". How is this possible?

Thank you

[Adam Tyson]

Hey Naj, the purpose of that diagram was to show the idea that IF Cecile was required to disclose, THEN she was either authorized to disburse funds OR she sits on the board of a petrochemical company. But we know that she does not meet either of those necessary conditions - she is neither authorized to disburse funds nor on the board of such a company - which triggers the contrapositive, and proves that she is not required by her association to disclose her investments. The diagram is not contradicting the stimulus, but is reflecting the conditional rules of the stimulus and then applying the facts to those rules. Make sense?

A valid conclusion here, based on that contrapositive, would have been that she is not required to disclosed her investments. Where the author went wrong was in leaping from "not required by her association" to "no reason to disclose." Maybe there are other reasons, even when not required?

[Naj]

Thank you that makes more sense now.