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#114100
Hey Dancing,
As Jeff said, there is no flow or time condition tied to conditional relationships (this is different than cause and effect relationships, which have a temporal structure). Answer choice (A) might seem like it restates the contrapositive, because there is funding
practical problem. However, the stimulus only tells us what is sufficient to make funding obligatory - not why people should not fund something. At the very least, research institutions need to fund projects that will have practical applications and improve people's quality of life. However, they could also approve funding for many other projects and deny funding for projects for a variety of reasons. Basically, 99% of the decisions to fund/not fund can't be justified by the principle in the stimulus - the only set of research that this is applicable to is research that will give insight to practical problems improving the QOL.
So the university dean denying the application in answer choice (A) can't use this principle to justify his actions. He can't say "well the project doesn't have to do with practical problems so I had to deny it" because he didn't have to. He didn't have to fund it, but no one made him not fund it - this was his own free will. In comparison, imagine if the project had to do with practical problems that would improve quality of life - his hands would totally be tied, he'd have to fund it. (This is the scenario in answer choice E btw, which is why it's correct).
Hope that helps!
As Jeff said, there is no flow or time condition tied to conditional relationships (this is different than cause and effect relationships, which have a temporal structure). Answer choice (A) might seem like it restates the contrapositive, because there is funding
practical problem. However, the stimulus only tells us what is sufficient to make funding obligatory - not why people should not fund something. At the very least, research institutions need to fund projects that will have practical applications and improve people's quality of life. However, they could also approve funding for many other projects and deny funding for projects for a variety of reasons. Basically, 99% of the decisions to fund/not fund can't be justified by the principle in the stimulus - the only set of research that this is applicable to is research that will give insight to practical problems improving the QOL.So the university dean denying the application in answer choice (A) can't use this principle to justify his actions. He can't say "well the project doesn't have to do with practical problems so I had to deny it" because he didn't have to. He didn't have to fund it, but no one made him not fund it - this was his own free will. In comparison, imagine if the project had to do with practical problems that would improve quality of life - his hands would totally be tied, he'd have to fund it. (This is the scenario in answer choice E btw, which is why it's correct).
Hope that helps!