PT109.S4.Q13

PrepTest 109 - Section 4 - Question 13

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Politician: Conclusion The bill that makes using car phones while driving illegal should be adopted. ██ ███████ ██ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ██ █ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ █████ █ ███ █████ █████████ █████████ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ████ █████ █ ██████ ██ ████ ████████ ██████ █████ ██ ████████ ████ █████ █████ ███ ██████ █████ ███████ ██ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ██ ███

Argument Summary

The politician concludes that a bill making car phone use while driving illegal should be adopted. What's the support? First, using a car phone seriously distracts the driver, and this distraction poses a threat to safe driving. Second, making it illegal would deter people from using car phones while driving. Putting these together, the bill would reduce a threat to public safety by deterring people from a dangerous behavior.

We know from the premises that the bill would deter car phone use while driving, and car phone use while driving threatens safe driving. So it makes sense to think the bill would reduce a threat to safe driving. But the conclusion goes beyond that reasonable inference. It says the bill should be adopted. That's a prescriptive claim about what we ought to do, and the premises alone don't get us there.

Objective: Bridge the Gap

As with many Sufficient Assumption questions, there's a gap between what the premises establish and a new concept in the conclusion. The premises establish that the bill would reduce a threat to public safety. But the conclusion says the bill should be adopted. Nothing in the premises tells us when a bill should be adopted. So we want a bridge that connects "reduces a threat to public safety" to "should be adopted."

We're looking for something like: if a proposed law would reduce a threat to public safety, then it should be adopted.

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The more attention ███ ████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ █ ██████ ███ ███

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c

Some distractions interfere ████ █████ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ ███████████

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Any proposed law ████ █████ ██████ █ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██ ████████

e

Car phone use ██ ██████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████

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