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Our palates are quite socially determined:
1. we notice lot of people enjoy consuming food X 2. we become accustomed to the food 3. we eventually come to like it
We want to see an answer hit these same beats.
Which one of the following most closely conforms to the principle above?
Maxine spoke to her neighbor
Do we have a match for #1 - we notice lot of people enjoy consuming food X? No, not really. Maxine just speaks to her neighbor about pasta.
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Mike dislikes lima beans, due
Do we have a match for #1: we notice lot of people enjoy consuming food X? Kind of — we notice our parents dislike lima beans and few of our family members like them. Do we have a match for #2 and #3: we become accustomed to lima beans? we eventually come to like lima beans? No, Mike still hates those lima beans. (If we found no answer better than this, than maybe we would consider it as an "inverted" use of the principle.)
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All of George’s Ukrainian relatives
Why this is right
Do we have a match for #1: we notice lot of people enjoy consuming food X? Kind of — George notices all his relatives eat pierogis. Do we have a match for #2 and #3: he becomes accustomed to pierogis? he eventually comes to like pierogis? Yes and yes. The line that "he stays there for several summers" allows a chance for him to have become accustomed to them. And in the end he is very fond of them.
Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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Yolanda dislikes pickles because she
Just like (B), this example ends with someone disliking something, when the principle given talked about the process by which someone comes to like a food.
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Sally found jalapeño peppers to
This one is close, but we're never told that Sally "eventually comes to like the food as well", only that she eventually comes to be able to eat it without discomfort.
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