If something would have been justifiably

Answer choices

1. A

   Opposite, if anything1% picked this

   One should never regret one’s

   We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". This answer is talking about not regretting pleasures, so it's headed in the wrong direction.

   1%
2. B

   Opposite, if anything13% picked this

   Forgone pleasures that were not desired would not have been

   We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". This is talking about stuff that "would not have been justifiably regretted", so it's headed in the wrong direction.

   13%
3. C

   Opposite, if anything7% picked this

   Everything that one desires and then regrets not having is a

   We're looking to hear that "many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred". In other words, if we had actually obtained that pleasure we desired, we would have justifiably regretted it. This answer is talking about regretting that we didn't obtain a pleasure we desired.

   7%
4. D

   Correct76% picked this

   Many forgone pleasures would have been

   Why this is right

   This answer Many FP's would have been JR combined with the premise If something would have been JR, shouldn't have been desired in the first place allows us to derive the conclusion Many FP's shouldn't have been desired in the first place.

   Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   76%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   Nothing that one should not have desired in the first place fails to

   If an answer isn't talking about "forgone pleasures", we're not interested. Our job here is to mathematically prove a claim about "forgone pleasures", and the evidence never mentioned "forgone pleasures", so the correct answer has to. If we combined this answer everything that shouldn't have been desired in the first place is a pleasure with the premise if something would have been justifiably regretted, it shouldn't have been been desired in the first place we would have no chance of deriving this conclusion many forgone pleasures shouldn't have been desired in first place because we never said "many forgone pleasures" in the supporting ideas.

   2%