According to the revised aviation safety guidelines, any commercial aircraft operating in polar regions must be equipped with dual-band thermal radar. Furthermore, any aircraft equipped with dual-band thermal radar undergoes rigorous cryogenic calibration every six months. Skyways Airlines recently announced that its entire fleet of cargo planes undergoes rigorous cryogenic calibration every six months.
Statement: Based on the information provided, it must be true that Skyways Airlines operates its cargo planes in polar regions.
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Answer
False. The proposed statement is not a valid deduction because it relies on an illegal reversal of the conditional premises.
The conclusion drawn in the statement relies on a classic formal logic error. The premises establish a one-way chain: operating in polar regions requires cryogenic calibration. We are told Skyways Airlines undergoes cryogenic calibration. However, we cannot read a conditional statement backward. It is entirely possible that aircraft operating in other regions also undergo cryogenic calibration for different reasons. Thus, it is not logically required that Skyways operates in polar regions, making the 'must be true' claim false.
Step-by-Step Solution
Key Concept
Evaluating conditional reasoning chains and identifying illegal reversals (affirming the consequent).