Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Politician: Homelessness is a serious social problem, but further gove

­Politician: Homelessness is a serious social problem, but further government spending to provide low-income housing is not the cure for homelessness. The most cursory glance at the real-estate section of any major newspaper is enough to show that there is no lack of housing units available to rent. So the frequent claim that people are homeless because of a lack of available housing is wrong.

That homelessness is a serious social problem figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?


(A) It suggests an alternative prospective to the one adopted in the argument. - "Homelessness is a serious social problem" is an accepted fact and it doesn't suggest an alternative perspective. 

(B) It sets out a problem the argument is designed to resolve. - The argument doesn't resolve "Homelessness is a serious social problem." Instead, the argument rejects one reason for homelessness. 

(C) It is compatible either with accepting the conclusion or with denying
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 16 Nov 2006, 11:11 • Replies 6 • Views 21192

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