QUESTION TEXT: While it was once believed that the…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Psychoses (unlike neuroses) have nothing to do with the environment.
REASONING: Psychoses are more easily treated with medicine than with environmental therapy.
ANALYSIS: This is a bad argument. Just because it’s easier to treat something with medicine doesn’t mean that no environmental factors played a role in causing the psychosis.
Just like the cause of a bacterial infection is environmental but the best treatment is often medicinal (an antibiotic.)
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- CORRECT. The argument is ignoring the possibility that environmental factors can make psychoses worse, even if medicine is the best treatment.
- Actually, the argument’s whole point is that organic conditions are best treated by medicines.
- The argument didn’t say that those conditions couldn’t be treated environmentally. But the best treatment method is medicinal.
- The argument did consider this. What it failed to consider is that you can’t always infer the nature of the cause from the treatment.
- The argument doesn’t claim neuroses have no organic cause. But the conclusion is about psychoses.
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