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Which of the following is the conclusion of the argument above?
*This question is included in Nova Press: Set A - Intro to GMAT Logic: Premises and Conclusions, question #10
| (A) | God must not control man’s behavior |
| (B) | ... |
| (C) | ... |
| (D) | ... |
| (E) | ... |
| (F) | ... |
The solution is
Posted: 04/14/2013 03:35
The "since" here weaken the statement, this confuse me why the A is the answer.
Posted: 04/16/2013 19:27
Feng Lin, the "since" phrase provides the evidence to the conclusion. So it does not really weaken it, in fact it strengthens the conclusion.
Posted: 02/17/2014 22:46
In general, the sentence before 'since' is always the conclusion?
Posted: 02/28/2014 11:06
Ziyi, that is one way of thinking about it.
Posted: 08/09/2014 09:26
The answer established actually depends on many unwarranted assumptions. Namely that a)god does not want or does evil, b) that any man's behavior can be or is fundamentally evil, c) that god would have the same moral compass as man, and so on and so forth. All of this unwarranted. So in pure analysis there is no silogism, and there is no conclusion, just statements.
Posted: 08/09/2014 21:50
Hi Miguel,
The argument is not very compelling for the reasons you mention.
But the problem is not asking us to evaluate the soundness of the argument. It is only asking us to identify the author's conclusion.
We need only the last sentence. Let's rewrite it in the following more direct form:
Since there is so much evil in the world, God must not control man’s behavior.
The structure here is
Since PREMISE, (therefore) CONCLUSION.
Take, for example, the following sentence:
Since it is sunny, it is not raining.
Here the author concludes that it is not raining.
Nova Press
The argument is not very compelling for the reasons you mention.
But the problem is not asking us to evaluate the soundness of the argument. It is only asking us to identify the author's conclusion.
We need only the last sentence. Let's rewrite it in the following more direct form:
Since there is so much evil in the world, God must not control man’s behavior.
The structure here is
Since PREMISE, (therefore) CONCLUSION.
Take, for example, the following sentence:
Since it is sunny, it is not raining.
Here the author concludes that it is not raining.
Nova Press
Posted: 03/28/2016 20:22
I chose D. The first sentence is an either-A-or-B selection, the second sentence provides support for B. So B is the conclusion. What is wrong with my reasoning?