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Zorluk: OrtaDiagramming Conditional Statements

An organizational ethicist asserts: A business entity attains true ethical leadership only if it implements fair-trade sourcing and guarantees a living wage for all workers. Implementing fair-trade sourcing requires the entity to comprehensively audit its supply network. Moreover, no business entity comprehensively audits its supply network without adopting a radical transparency framework.

Which one of the following logically follows from the ethicist's assertions?

  1. Any business entity that does not adopt a radical transparency framework fails to attain true ethical leadership.Cevap
  2. B
    Any business entity that adopts a radical transparency framework will attain true ethical leadership.
  3. C
    A business entity that fails to attain true ethical leadership also fails to guarantee a living wage for all workers.
  4. D
    Most business entities that comprehensively audit their supply networks also guarantee a living wage for all workers.
  5. E
    A business entity fails to attain true ethical leadership only if it fails both to implement fair-trade sourcing and to guarantee a living wage.

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The statement establishing that an entity failing to adopt a radical transparency framework will fail to attain true ethical leadership.
Based on the stimulus, we can build a conditional chain: True Ethical Leadership (TEL) requires Fair-Trade Sourcing (FTS), which requires Auditing the Supply network (CAS), which in turn requires a Radical Transparency framework (ART). Symbolically: TEL -> FTS -> CAS -> ART. A valid deduction must follow the rules of formal logic. The contrapositive of this chain is: If Not ART, then Not TEL. The correct answer matches this contrapositive perfectly, stating that failing to adopt radical transparency guarantees a failure to attain true ethical leadership.

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1
Identify and diagram the first conditional relationship.
True Ethical Leadership (TEL) -> Fair-Trade Sourcing (FTS) AND Guarantees Living Wage (GLW).
The phrase 'only if' introduces a necessary condition. Both FTS and GLW are necessary for TEL.
2
Identify and diagram the subsequent conditional relationships.
Fair-Trade Sourcing (FTS) -> Comprehensively Audits Supply network (CAS). CAS -> Adopts Radical Transparency (ART).
The word 'requires' introduces a necessary condition. The phrase 'no X without Y' means Y is necessary for X.
3
Synthesize the conditional relationships into a logical chain.
TEL -> FTS -> CAS -> ART.
Because FTS is necessary for TEL, and CAS is necessary for FTS, and ART is necessary for CAS, we can link them together.
4
Form the contrapositive of the newly established logical chain.
Not ART -> Not CAS -> Not FTS -> Not TEL.
To form a valid deduction from a conditional chain, you reverse and negate the terms. If the final necessary condition (ART) is not met, the initial sufficient condition (TEL) cannot be met.

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Diagramming Conditional Chains and Applying the Contrapositive
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Diagramming Conditional Statements

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