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    Challenges→Quota systems requiring preferential hiring of blacks until proportional representation is achieved may be justified as a means of increasing effective opportunities for blacks.

    Thomas Sowell's empirical work shows that group economic disparities routinely predate discriminatory policies or persist identically in groups that faced no legal discrimination, weakening the causal inference in P2.

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    Empirical work(describing Sowell's research methods)
    Research based on real-world data and observations rather than just ideas or theories—basically, studying what actually happened in the world.
    Group economic disparities(what the statement is analyzing)
    Differences in wealth, income, or financial success between different groups of people.
    P2(Provides the truth conditions for proposition (7), identified as proposition (7): George Bush does not exist.)
    The principle that proposition (7) is true if and only if George Bush does not exist — a modalized instance of the Tarski truth-schema 's is true iff s'.
    Thomas Sowell(The statement references his empirical work and findings)
    An American economist and social theorist known for studying how economies and societies actually work through data and evidence, often challenging popular explanations for why groups have different outcomes.

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    causal inference(Epistemology of causation)
    A mode of reasoning that goes beyond the evidence of the senses and memory by supposing a connection between present facts and what is inferred from them

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