Bunuel wrote:
Free public education is the best form of education there is. Therefore, we must fight to ensure its continued existence; that is, we must be ready to defend the principle of equality of educational opportunity. Because this principle is we worth defending, it is clear that free public education is better than any other form of education.
Which one of the following illustrates the same weak reasoning as found in the passage?
(A) I love music, and that’s why I listen to it constantly. I have my stereo or radio on every waking minute. Since I play music all the time, I must really love it.
(B) Books are my most valuable possessions. My books are like my friends—each pleases me in different ways. Just as I would give up everything to save my friends, so too with my books.
(C) I would much rather be poor and respected than be rich and despised. To have the respect of others is far more valuable than to have millions of dollars.
(D) I have never been betrayed by any of my friends. They have been true to me through good times and bad. Therefore I will never betray any of my friends.
(E) Because every plant I have ever seen has green leaves, I have concluded that all plants must have green leaves. This looks like a plant but it does not have green leaves, so it cannot be a plant.
Jotting down the points:
free edu-best
must preserve edu
Conclusion: free edu best than any other form of edu
(A) I love music, and that’s why I listen to it constantly. I have my stereo or radio on every waking minute. Since I play music all the time, I must really love it.
P: love M and always listen on stereo or radio
C: I MUST love it
Logical. Emphasizes on music and concluded firmly about it at the end.
IMO CORRECT(B) Books are my most valuable possessions. My books are like my friends—each pleases me in different ways. Just as I would give up everything to save my friends, so too with my books.
P: books valuable possession
P: books=friends
C: save book just as friends
introduction of similarity in books and friends
(C) I would much rather be poor and respected than be rich and despised. To have the respect of others is far more valuable than to have millions of dollars.
P: poor>rich
C: respect>millions
No similar reasoning as the argument in the question.
(D) I have never been betrayed by any of my friends. They have been true to me through good times and bad. Therefore I will never betray any of my friends.
P:never betrayed friends
P; friends always there
C: never betray friends
I somehow found this as a contender. But if the conclusion compared something like preference between best friends and friends, I would have gone for it.
(E) Because every plant I have ever seen has green leaves, I have concluded that all plants must have green leaves. This looks like a plant but it does not have green leaves, so it cannot be a plant.
Structure same as the argument in the question.
P: not green means not plant
C: all plants must be green
But the structure of premise and conclusion here is different than that of the argument in the question.
The above given reasoning is how I thought of while solving the question(took about 2.30 minute and exhausted at the end
). Experts, please do give your opinion if there is any incorrect reasoning.