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 weather conditions prevailing in one place must always match those in another.
- mistakes a claim stated as a matter of degree for one asserted in strictly absolute terms.
- employs the key phrase 'below freezing' with two subtly distinct and shifting meanings.
- concludes that snowfall is the single and only possible cause of below-freezing temperatures.
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