QUESTION TEXT: Kim: In northern Europe during the eighteenth…
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken
CONCLUSION: Lee concludes that Europe’s optimism wasn’t due to increased life expectancy.
REASONING: Europeans would have had to know they were living longer to be happy about it.
ANALYSIS: There might be other ways that increased life expectancy makes you happy, even if you don’t realize that life expectancy is up. You’d probably feel happier if your children stopped dying, even if you didn’t know why.
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- CORRECT. Maybe we are richer when people live longer, and that makes us happier.
- So? People back then didn’t know that they were living longer.
- How does this help Kim? If a philosopher says that 20 angels can dance on the head of a pin, what does that have to do with happiness and
life expectancy? (That’s a conjecture that affects no one) - This could explain why no one knew that life expectancy had increased. But this doesn’t help Kim prove that people were happy because of
the increase. - This supports Lee, by showing that life expectancy wasn’t to blame for the increase in happiness.
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