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    Challenges→Agriculture is the foundation of the country and cannot be neglected.

    If foundational status entails policy priority, then technologically advanced food-importing nations like Singapore and Japan refute the inference that agricultural neglect produces national decline.

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    Key Terms

    Agricultural neglect(in the example argument)
    When a nation fails to give attention, investment, or resources to its farming and food production systems.
    Foundational status(epistemology)
    The special position a belief has when it's meant to be a basic, self-supporting starting point that doesn't depend on other beliefs.
    National decline(in political philosophy and history)
    A gradual weakening or worsening of a country's economy, power, stability, or well-being over time.
    Policy priority(in political philosophy and governance)
    Something that a government or organization decides to focus on and give resources to as most important.
    Refute(as what particularists must do to challenge the unity of virtue thesis)

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    Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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