Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Mayor: The financial livelihood of our downtown businesses is in jeopa

Understanding the argument -
Mayor: The financial livelihood of our downtown businesses is in jeopardy. Opinion/Fact.
There are few available parking spaces close to the downtown shopping area, so if we are to spur economic growth in our city, we must build a large parking ramp no more than two blocks from downtown. - "Few" means almost near zero. And this is a necessary condition. What is the condition? To spur economic growth, the MINIMUM condition is to build a large parking ramp no more than two blocks from downtown.
Here is what the conditional will look like - Only if we build a large parking ramp no more than two blocks from downtown, then we spur economic growth.
This means, that "spur economic growth" implies "we built a large parking ramp no more than two blocks from downtown."
or "No large parking ramp no more than two blocks from downtown" implies "no spur in economic growth."

So, we need to weaken what? That "we
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 21 Apr 2020, 23:36 • Replies 31 • Views 30426

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