Essayist: Every contract negotiator has been lied to by someone or other, and whoever lies to anyone is practicing deception.
Statements
Conditionals
Contract negotiator → Been lied to
Been lied to → Has lied to someone
Has lied to someone → Practicing deception
Evaluate
On Must Be True we're primarily looking out for Conditional or Mathematical language. When we see conditional trigger words like "Every", "Whoever", and "Anyone", we think about whether any of these conditional rules would chain together.
In order to chain together, you need an overlapping term, so after turning the first claim into a conditional, we want to find an idea that overlaps with "contract negotiator" or "been lied to".
Hence, we skipped over the 2nd fact so that we could look at the 3rd one, which contains "been lied to". On our paper, we would probably just chain as we go (rather than writing all three out separately as I did above).
Once we've attached the 1st and 3rd claim, we see that the 2nd claim picks up right where our chain left off. So the three fit together like this:
Contract Been Has lied to Practice negotiator → Lied to → someone → Deception
Goal
We can anticipate that the correct answer might reward us for assembling the whole chain by testing "If contract negotiator, then practice deception", or its contrapositive.
But the correct answer doesn't have to connect the 1st to the 4th. It might connect 1st to 3rd, or 2nd to 4th.