Q8 - One should not confuse a desire for money with

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Role/Function

Stimulus Breakdown:
Conclusion: You shouldn't confuse wanting money with wanting material things.
Evidence: Money buys a lot of stuff that isn't material (education / travel / prestige). And even when we do want material things, we usually don't want the THING; we want the experience the thing provides.

Answer Anticipation:
The first sentence was the Main Conclusion (it's got an opinion indicator, "should", and it's supported by the 2nd and 3rd sentences). 2nd and 3rd were both Supporting ideas.

If we actually needed to care whether either is an intermediate conclusion, we can see from the keyword "Moreover" that neither the 2nd nor the 3rd supports the other. "Claim 1. Moreover, claim 2" is just like using the connector "and" or "furthermore". These all indicate to us that "these two claims are being used in parallel to collectively support a main conclusion".

Since the question stem is asking about the first sentence, our prephrase is "Main Conclusion".

Correct Answer:
B

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) A conclusion is an inference drawn from the evidence. This answer is saying the argument drew inferences from this claim (our conclusion). That's totally backwards. You could say that the first sentence "is a generalization FOR which the argument provides support involving several particular cases"

(B) YES, indeedy.

(C) No, there weren't any other conclusions.

(D) No, the author isn't evaluatin this recommendation. She is OFFERING us this recommendation.

(E) It's not a problem, it's the main conclusion.

Takeaway/Pattern: If we use our normal system for Role/Function of reading the argument for the Conclusion and Evidence, and prephrasing the claim they're asking us about as "Main Conclusion / Support for / Opposing / Neutral", then this one should be pretty straightforward. Role/Functino questions almost always tease the idea of subsidiary conclusions, so to be good at these we need to confidently understand how keywords will show us when there is (or in this case isn't) a subsidiary conclusion.

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[LeonC548]

Well, the post is good, however i must not agree with that ''thesis''. I mean, in case you want and dream about material things, you need money. You have to buy them, so you need money. So, i guess it is almost the same thing actually. I really don't see any difference between desire of money, and desire of material things, it is basically the same thing. And taking into consideration the fact that we live in a very pragmatic world, and there are a lot of really expensive things that we want, some of us have to get some side hustles. There are some really great ideas on https://yourmoneygeek.com/best-side-hustles/ for side hustles.