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The author is recommending a sleep technique. The thoughts that keep a person awake can come from either half of the brain. So, the author reasons, someone kept awake purely by such thoughts could fall asleep by closing their eyes and counting sheep, because that activity loads the left half of the brain with counting and the right half with imagining sheep, leaving no room for the sleep-preventing thoughts.
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This rates options by quality and then recommends choosing the good ones over the bad one. The original argument does not choose between options at all. It uses a single measure to block two sources of one problem. Picking the better building material is not the same shape as occupying both sources to prevent a problem, so this does not paralell the reasoning.
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This best parallels the reasoning. The problem, damage to furniture, can come from either of two sources, a cat's claws or its teeth, just as the sleep-preventing thoughts can come from either half of the brain. The fix is a single measure that covers both sources at once, objects the cat will both claw and bite, just as counting sheep occupies both halves of the brain. And the conclusion is that this measure would prevent the problem, exactly as in the original.
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Two roads of equal length both lead to Centreville, so either one serves the goal. There is no problem arising from two sources and no single measure blocking both. It is just two interchangeable options, which does not parallel the reasoning.
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Here the danger comes from two things being combined, so the fix is to keep them apart. The sleep argument is not about separating anything, it is about one activity occupying both sources of a problem at the same time. Preventing a problem by keeping things apart is a different structure from preventing one by filling both sources, so this does not match.
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There are two harbors, one is too shallow for large ships, so the ship must use the remaining one. That eliminates an option and defaults to what is left. The original does not eliminate one of its two sources, it blocks both at once.