QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption
CONCLUSION: Anger is not a reasonable way to respond to insults.
REASONING: If insults are true, we should welcome the information. If insults are false, we should pity the ignorant who insult us.
ANALYSIS: We need to eliminate the possibility that someone could feel anger at gratitude at the same time.
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- This is half of the correct answer.
- This is the other half.
- CORRECT. This combines A and B, and shows that in either situation anger is unreasonable.
- This is a necessary assumption, but doesn’t tell us that anger isn’t also reasonable.
- Neither necessary nor sufficient. We need to know that anger isn’t reasonable.
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