Self-study
Real estate agent: Upon selling a home, the sellers are legally entitled to remove any items that are not permanent fixtures. ████████ █████ ██████████ ████ ███████████ ███ ███ █████████ █████████ ████████ █████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ██ ████████ ████ ███ █████████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ██████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ ██ ████████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ████ ███ ██████████ ███ ███ █████████
Summary
According to the real estate agent, home sellers are morally obliged inform prospective buyers if they plan to keep their appliances, despite being legally entitled to do so. Why? Because otherwise, many buyers will probably assume that the appliances are included in the sale.
Notable Assumptions
The real estate agent jumps from a premise about buyers’ assumptions to a conclusion about sellers’ moral obligations. So, the agent must be assuming a link between these two ideas.
We can justify the agent’s argumentation by filling in that assumption. To do so, we must find a principle stating that sellers are morally obligated to inform prospective buyers if they will be keeping appliances which some buyers would assume are included in the sale.
17.
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a
If a home's ███████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ██████████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ██████ █████ ██ ████████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████ █████ ██████████ ███ ███ █████████
This rule triggers: we know appliances are a type of belonging that prospective buyers might assume would be included in a sale. And it also bridges to the right conclusion, that sellers then have a moral obligation to inform prospective buyers of their intention.
b
A home's sellers ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ██████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ██████████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████
The real estate agent concedes that large appliances are not permanent fixtures, and never indicates that buyers might assume otherwise. This also doesn’t address the issue of whether or not the sellers are keeping the appliances. So, this rule doesn’t bridge the gap.
c
A home's sellers ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████ ████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████ ███ ███ █████████ ████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████████ ███████
This gets to the wrong conclusion: the real estate agent never claims that sellers are ever morally obligated to include any appliances, just to inform buyers if they won’t be including appliances.
d
A home's sellers ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ██ ████████████ ███████ ███ ███████████ ██████ ██ █████ ████ █████ █████ ██████████ ███ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████ ███ ████
The real estate agent never brings up the idea of sellers deliberately misleading buyers, so this rule is just irrelevant.
e
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This rule doesn’t trigger, because the real estate agent never discusses the situation of a seller indicating that an appliance is included. It also gets to the wrong conclusion, about selling appliances rather than just about informing buyers.