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The television station concludes that it can forewarn parents of how violent different programs are by having a panel review and rate each program. This is supported by an explanation of how the ratings would appear in newspapers.

In order to believe that parents will be forewarned by program ratings published in newspapers, the station must assume that parents will read the newspapers. Otherwise, the information just wouldn’t reach them.

For the station to infer that parents will be forewarned because of ratings published in the newspapers, this assumption is necessary. If we negated this assumption, and parents did not read the newspapers, the conclusion wouldn’t make sense.

The number of shows with any given rating is irrelevant to the question of whether this system will actually forewarn parents.

This isn’t necessary because the rating system doesn’t have to be the most effective possible system in order to forewarn parents. The bar is much lower than that.

Whether the station is under an obligation or is voluntarily choosing to forewarn parents doesn’t affect the argument, which is just about whether the rating system will in fact work.

The argument is just about forewarning parents, not about reducing the amount of violence on television, so this assumption isn’t necessary.

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