medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
If a substance is a metal, it conducts electricity. Glass does not conduct electricity. Therefore, glass is not a metal.
Which one of the following best describes the logical structure of this argument?
- Denying a guaranteed consequence to rule out the condition that would have ensured it.
- Inferring the triggering condition from the presence of its guaranteed consequence.
- Deriving the guaranteed consequence from the presence of the triggering condition.
- Concluding the consequence is absent from the mere absence of the triggering condition.
- Treating the triggering condition and its consequence as entirely interchangeable terms.
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