#13 - If the purpose of laws is to contribute to people’s

[LawSchoolDream]

Is it true that if there is a conditional reasoning in a flaw stimulus then answer choice will have ONE conditional reasoning out of 5 choices? Because I did notice the conditional reasoning but I was searching for the flaw to be around necessary condition, but answer A said sufficient is not necessary. Can you expand on this further pls?

[Adam Tyson]

Sometimes, when the flaw is conditional, only one answer will describe a conditional flaw. When that happens, pick that answer with confidence! It won't matter if it says the author treats a sufficient condition as necessary, or if it says they treated a necessary condition as sufficient, or if they said that the author failed to consider that a necessary condition could occur even when a sufficient condition does not, because all of those answers mean the same thing.

But sometimes, there will be more than one answer that mentions conditional reasoning, and there you have to be careful. Wrong answers might describe a contrapositive, which is valid, or a restatement (the sufficient condition happens and therefore so does the necessary condition,) which is also valid. Or, an answer might use some conditional language but then add in some causal language, which would be wrong if the flaw was only conditional.