QUESTION TEXT: Political scientist: The concept of freedom is…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Political organization is useless.
REASONING: Many terms are vague, such as freedom, justice, fairness, etc.
ANALYSIS: Why should vague terms prevent political organization? The political scientist never says why.
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- The political scientist never said every political idea is vague. They just listed four terms that are vague.
- The political scientist does support his claim, in the second sentence.
- Who cares if people view freedom as indispensable? We don’t even know what freedom means, it’s a vague term.
- CORRECT. The political scientists pulls political organization out of nowhere. We’re never told what it has to do with vague terms.
- First, an ad hominem flaw is never usually a real flaw. Second, we’re not told whether the political scientist has any interest in rejecting political organization.
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