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The author concludes that a new electronic braille system, which works by heating a device's screen in specific patterns, will be accessible to anyone who can read traditional braille. In support, the author explains that the new electronic braille system uses the same symbols as traditional braille.
The author's argument is based on an analogy between traditional and electronic braille: their similar features are used to support the claim that readers will be similarly able to use them. But the author only addresses one point of comparison between the systems, that they use the same symbols. The author doesn't address any other potential barriers to reading electronic braille. For instance, we don't know if people's fingers can actually sense a pattern of heat the way they can distinguish raised dots on a surface. For electronic braille to be usable for traditional braille readers, the author has to assume that there won't be other significant barriers to its use.
As with many Necessary Assumption questions, though, we should keep an open mind when reading the answer choices. Necessary assumptions can come in many forms, so we shouldn't make the (unwarranted) assumption that we've predicted the only possible answer!
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