#11 - Global, List

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):


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[hope]

How can C be correct when in the administrator's diagram it says: If I is not 1 then H is 3 or 4 (Contrapositive of Rule 4)? In C, I is 1 so H should not be able to be 3 or 4. But it is. Can someone help me to understand? Thanks.

[Robert Carroll]

hope,

Your reasoning commits the flaw of a Mistaken Negation. If I is not 1, H is 3 or 4; if I is 1, nothing necessarily happens. To think otherwise is to think that the negation of the sufficient condition leads to the negation of the necessary, which is a Mistaken Negation.

Robert Carroll

[hope]

Okay so thank you from rescuing me from the Twilight Zone. I had not thought about Mistaken Negation. I've got to tighten up my thing. But thanks.