PT155.S2.Q23

PrepTest 155 - Section 2 - Question 23

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Kira: It would be unwise for you to buy that insurance policy. ████ ████████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ████████

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Concede the Premises, Reject the Assumption

Kira moves from "this company profits when you buy their policy" to "it's unwise to buy their policy." The unstated assumption is that anything someone else profits from must be bad for you.

Binh concedes both of Kira's premises ("Undeniably, the insurer is in business to make money") and then attacks Kira's assumption ("the mere fact that an insurer draws a profit in no way implies that buying one of its policies is unwise"). He doesn't add a new fact. He doesn't claim the policy is actually a good deal. He just points out that Kira's premises don't get her where she wants to go.

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With Binh's move identified, we have a specific prediction. The correct answer is likely to describe Binh as accepting Kira's premises while rejecting the assumption that the fact a company profits from a policy means buying the policy is unwise.

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23.

Binh responds to Kira's argument ██ █████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

a

suggesting that Kira ███ ██████████ █ ████ █████ ████████ ██████████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████

This describes Binh as introducing a new fact that conflicts with Kira's conclusion. He doesn't. The only new content Binh contributes is a logical observation (that profit doesn't imply unwise), which is a critique of Kira's assumption rather than a fact she overlooked.

20%
b

denying Kira's premises █████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████████ █████ ██ ██████ ████████

Binh doesn't deny Kira's premises. He accepts them with the word "Undeniably." He also never says Kira's conclusion is unlikely; he stays neutral on whether the policy is actually unwise.

3%
c

arguing that Kira's ████████ ███ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ █████ ████████ ██████ ███ █████ █████

Tempting, because the first half of (C) is true. Binh does say Kira's premises are inadequate to prove her conclusion. But (C) goes further by claiming Binh argues the premises actually point toward the conclusion being false. Binh never makes that move. There's a difference between "your evidence doesn't prove the policy is unwise" (Binh's actual position) and "your evidence shows the policy is wise" (what (C) describes). Binh stops at the first.

7%
d

conceding Kira's premises ███████ ███████ ███ ███████████ █████ █████████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██████

Binh (1) concedes the premises ("Undeniably, the insurer is in business to make money"), (2) doesn't claim Kira's conclusion is wrong, and (3) asserts that her conclusion doesn't follow from her premises ("the mere fact that an insurer draws a profit in no way implies that buying one of its policies is unwise").

Binh's stance is neutral on whether buying the policy is actually unwise. He could think Kira's conclusion is right, wrong, or unknowable from this evidence. He just says her argument doesn't establish it. That's exactly the move (D) describes.

68%
e

observing that while ██████ ████████ ████ █████████████ ███████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ████ ███ ███████

Binh says the opposite of the first part of (E). He says Kira's premises don't support her conclusion, not that each premise independently supports it. And he never says her premises contradict each other.

2%

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