THE CORRECT ANSWER IS D INDEED
See this analogy:-
The easiest way to get into HARVARD MBA is
1) Prepare for GMAT
2) Score 770+ in GMAT
3) Send application to HARVARD
These 3 are
necessary conditions to get in HARVARD MBA, but they are not
sufficient enough to guarantee an admission.
What if you score 780 in GMAT but you are only 11 years old and are currently in standard 6 in a school. Can you join HARVARD MBA without a high school or college degree or work experience. NO
So
Necessary conditions doesn't means
Sufficient condition. They go in both directions and can be often confusing .
For example.
Being a fertile, healthy woman is a necessary condition in order to become pregnant.
But can a woman be pregnant without some sort of sperm donor or a male.
So having a willing, fertile, male to donate sperms is required. Adding that to the list will make our condition
sufficient.
In layman's term always remember
NECCESARY CONDITION = (ALL CRITERIAS / RULES/ REQUIREMENTS) BUT NO STILL NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS
SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS = GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS
Now the Flat earth president himself says that for a theory to be accepted that theory is :-
(1) First Laughed and
(2) then attacked and opposed,
(3) and then only those other theories that were
found to be true (4) were accepted.
FOUND TO BE TRUE (3) IS A SUFFICIENT CONDITION for acceptance.
In his case, he is being:-
(1) laughed and
(2) attacked and opposed ,
(3) now his theories will be found to be FLASE
(4) and therefore not accepted
SINCE HE DOES NOT FULFILL (3), he will not will be accepted.
SUFFICIENT CONDITION 3 IS NOT BEING FULLFILLED IN THE CASE OF FLAT EARTH'S PRESIDENT CLAIM
THEREFORE D is the CORRECT ANSWER WHICH SAYS THAT - (D)
The president mistakes a condition necessary to obtain a result for a condition sufficient to obtain that result.TGC wrote:
Flat Earth Society President: It is an accepted philosophical aphorism that all truth passes through three stages: first, it is mocked; second, it is opposed and condemned; third, it is accepted as self-evident. The central claims of my flat earth society were first mocked and now face ferocious opposition, so it is plain enough that they will shortly be accepted as self-evident.
Which of the following best describes the error in the president’s reasoning?
The evidence presented for the president’s conclusion is irrelevant to that conclusion.
The president generalizes from an atypical case.
The phenomenon introduced by the president in support of his principal contention is not a phenomenon covered by the aphorism supplied.
The president mistakes a condition necessary to obtain a result for a condition sufficient to obtain that result.
The president exploits two meaning of the word “truth.”
Source:Veri Prep
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