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Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for businesses that lose their integrity cannot survive. By definition, a business that has lost its integrity is no longer integrated; hence businesses that lose their integrity literally disintegrate.

The argument’s reasoning is flawed because the argument

(A) takes for granted that the survival of businesses is the only important ethical concern

(B) confuses a cause of integrity with an effect of integrity

(C) contains a key term that shifts in meaning from one sense to another

(D) overlooks the possibility that integrity is not a public-relations or management goal of some businesses

(E) takes for granted that a condition required for the conclusion to be true necessarily makes the conclusion true
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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   18 Aug 2022, 07:53
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"Integrity" has two meanings. One is a sort of 'moral uprightness.' So someone who has 'integrity' is honest, kind, fair, principled, etc. But "integrity" also means 'unified' or 'held together.'

This arguments shifts from the moral meaning to the structural meaning. If a business loses its integrity (in the moral sense) than it is 'no longer integrated' (structural sense), so it 'literally disintegrates' (structural sense).

I would not worry about this question. I am quite sure this is an LSAT Logical Reasoning question. LSAT Logical Reasoning does overlap with GMAT CR, but there are significant differences that a GMAT studier would not need. I can't recall an official GMAT question that tests this kind of 'term shift,' but the LSAT does it with some regularity.
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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   21 Oct 2023, 07:18
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The argument’s reasoning is flawed because the argument

(A) takes for granted that the survival of businesses is the only important ethical concern; Nowhere is this mentioned, nor is it an assumption upon which this argument relies, so NO to this one.

(B) confuses a cause of integrity with an effect of integrity; So a solid business shows more integrity than a failing one, or opposite? This is not mentioned here.

(C) contains a key term that shifts in meaning from one sense to another; Hmm, lets see. Argument mentions integrity (moral/ethical sense), then moves to integrated (as in structural) so this is correct.

(D) overlooks the possibility that integrity is not a public-relations or management goal of some businesses Does not matter and is not mentioned.

(E) takes for granted that a condition required for the conclusion to be true necessarily makes the conclusion true The argument doesn't. It states without integrity businesses will disintegrate, but lacks in the middle of this where structural integrity is mixed up in meaning. So this is not important.
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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   27 Jul 2022, 11:19
How should I comprehend the OA? How does it shift in meaning?
I was totally confused. Anybody can explain?
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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   18 Aug 2022, 05:10
Mavisdu1017 wrote:
How should I comprehend the OA? How does it shift in meaning?
I was totally confused. Anybody can explain?


"no longer integrated" changes to "disintegrated"
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Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   18 Aug 2022, 05:37
desertEagle wrote:
Mavisdu1017 wrote:
How should I comprehend the OA? How does it shift in meaning?
I was totally confused. Anybody can explain?


"no longer integrated" changes to "disintegrated"

HI,desertEagle I think you got wrong bro, the choice says (a key term) that shifts in meaning, but what you said is two terms rather than one key term.
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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   23 Oct 2023, 06:51
Dkhapllicator wrote:
The argument’s reasoning is flawed because the argument

(A) takes for granted that the survival of businesses is the only important ethical concern; Nowhere is this mentioned, nor is it an assumption upon which this argument relies, so NO to this one.

(B) confuses a cause of integrity with an effect of integrity; So a solid business shows more integrity than a failing one, or opposite? This is not mentioned here.

(C) contains a key term that shifts in meaning from one sense to another; Hmm, lets see. Argument mentions integrity (moral/ethical sense), then moves to integrated (as in structural) so this is correct.

(D) overlooks the possibility that integrity is not a public-relations or management goal of some businesses Does not matter and is not mentioned.

(E) takes for granted that a condition required for the conclusion to be true necessarily makes the conclusion true The argument doesn't. It states without integrity businesses will disintegrate, but lacks in the middle of this where structural integrity is mixed up in meaning. So this is not important.


I had kept C but selected E because I read the 'integrated' and 'disintegrated' to be an analogy with survival of the company , instead of wordplay on the meaning of integrity.

If you think along those lines then E holds i.e., a company without integrity would no longer be integrated is insufficient to say that it would disintegrate. Does this make sense?

I know integrated isn't absolutely the right word but structurally broken can be an analogy for a company to not be surviving well.

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Re: Moral integrity in business is of the highest concern, for [#permalink] New post   23 Oct 2023, 06:55
Palpable wrote:
Dkhapllicator wrote:
The argument’s reasoning is flawed because the argument

(A) takes for granted that the survival of businesses is the only important ethical concern; Nowhere is this mentioned, nor is it an assumption upon which this argument relies, so NO to this one.

(B) confuses a cause of integrity with an effect of integrity; So a solid business shows more integrity than a failing one, or opposite? This is not mentioned here.

(C) contains a key term that shifts in meaning from one sense to another; Hmm, lets see. Argument mentions integrity (moral/ethical sense), then moves to integrated (as in structural) so this is correct.

(D) overlooks the possibility that integrity is not a public-relations or management goal of some businesses Does not matter and is not mentioned.

(E) takes for granted that a condition required for the conclusion to be true necessarily makes the conclusion true The argument doesn't. It states without integrity businesses will disintegrate, but lacks in the middle of this where structural integrity is mixed up in meaning. So this is not important.


I had kept C but selected E because I read the 'integrated' and 'disintegrated' to be an analogy with survival of the company , instead of wordplay on the meaning of integrity.

If you think along those lines then E holds i.e., a company without integrity would no longer be integrated is insufficient to say that it would disintegrate. Does this make sense?

I know integrated isn't absolutely the right word but structurally broken can be an analogy for a company to not be surviving well.

Posted from my mobile device


Yeah I see what you mean. But here the shift in meaning is so drastic that it just doesnt make sense in the argument. It would be like going from sex as a gender in one sentence to the physical act in the next. Regardless, we now know what to do if we get a similar case on official test :) (though it is unlikely to see something like this)
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