easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
If it is snowing, the temperature must be below freezing. It is not snowing. Therefore, the temperature is not below freezing.
The argument is most vulnerable to criticism because it
- overlooks that a required condition can hold even when the thing requiring it does not occur.
- supposes that conditions in one place must match those in another.
- mistakes a claim of degree for one stated in absolute terms.
- employs the phrase 'below freezing' with two distinct meanings.
- concludes that snow is the one and only cause of below-freezing temperatures.
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