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A city ordinance dictates that all "essential" businesses must remain open during the public health emergency. Since bookstores are essential to the cultural vitality of any city, they must be required to remain open. Additionally, the ordinance requires "fair" compensation for emergency workers. Because paying everyone exactly the same hourly wage is fair, the city must standardize the pay of all doctors and sanitation workers to the same flat rate.

The argument's reasoning is vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds? (Select all that apply)

  1. It illicitly shifts the meaning of "essential" from "crucial for basic safety and infrastructure" to "highly valuable for cultural enrichment."Cevap
  2. It relies on two different senses of the word "fair," conflating equitable remuneration for varied work with strictly identical payment amounts.Cevap
  3. C
    It confuses a condition that is necessary for a business to remain open with a condition that is sufficient to guarantee it remains open.
  4. D
    It infers that because all essential businesses must remain open, any business that remains open must be deemed essential.
  5. E
    It mistakenly assumes that remaining open during an emergency causes a business to become culturally vital.

Cevap

The argument is flawed because it equivocates on two key terms, incorrectly shifting the definitions of both 'essential' and 'fair' midway through its reasoning.
The argument commits two distinct fallacies of equivocation. First, it conflates a practical, emergency-related definition of 'essential' with an abstract, cultural definition. Second, it shifts the meaning of 'fair' from its standard policy context of equitable compensation to a rigid definition of strictly identical pay. Both correct options accurately capture these specific semantic shifts.

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1
Analyze the first half of the argument regarding 'essential' businesses.
The ordinance uses 'essential' to mean necessary for surviving an emergency. The author then applies this rule to bookstores because they are 'essential' for cultural vitality.
Identifying semantic shifts requires comparing how a term is used in a premise versus how it is applied to reach the conclusion.
2
Analyze the second half of the argument regarding 'fair' compensation.
The ordinance requires 'fair' (equitable/just) pay for workers. The author concludes this means paying a doctor and a sanitation worker the exact same flat rate.
This highlights a second instance where a generally understood policy term is manipulated into a different literal meaning.
3
Evaluate the answer choices based on the identified semantic shifts.
The choices that describe the changing meanings of 'essential' and 'fair' accurately critique the logical vulnerabilities of the argument.
To correctly answer a Flaw question, the selected choices must describe an error that actually occurred in the text.

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