Bookstore owner: Consumers should buy

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal5% picked this

   Chain bookstores should not force independent bookstores out of business when doing so would reduce the variety of

   We need a rule about what consumers should / shouldn't do, because that's what our conclusion is talking about. This is a rule about what chain bookstores should / shouldn't do.

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2. B

   Correct80% picked this

   Consumers should buy books from only those bookstores whose existence does not tend to reduce the variety of

   Why this is right

   This combines the value judgment "should" and the relevant ideas "consumers only buying from certain places" from the conclusion with the primary concern of the evidence: the variety of books available to consumers. As a rule, it would look like this: If a bookstore's existence consumers tends to reduce the variety ? should not buy of books available to consumers books there The trigger of this applies to big-chain stores, because the evidence told us that they tend to reduce the variety of books available to consumers. So according to this rule, consumers should not buy from big-chain stores, which supports our conclusion.

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

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3. C

   Bad Conclusion Match11% picked this

   The best interest of the bookselling business is not served when consumers purchase books from businesses whose existence tends to reduce the

   According to this rule, if consumers buy from big-chain stores, then the best interest of the bookselling business is not served. Okay, are we concerned about serving the best interests of the bookselling business? In order for this to support the conclusion, we'd have to imagine our own rule that says "Consumers should not shop in any way that fails serve the best interest of the bookselling business". With (B), we don't have to add any connective tissue to make it work. It provides a rule that lets us derive the actual language of the conclusion.

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4. D

   Out of Scope4% picked this

   Consumers should not make purchases from any bookstore that deliberately forces competing bookstores

   Out of Scope: deliberately Bad Trigger Match This has the right conclusion language, "consumers should not buy from X". But it's trigger doesn't clearly apply to big-chain stores. In order for us to apply this rule to big-chain and derive that consumers should not make purchases from big-chain, we would need to know that big-chain stores "deliberately force competing bookstores out of business". We don't know that. The evidence told us that big-chain stores threaten the existence of competing bookstores, but that's not the same as "deliberately force them out of business".

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5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match0% picked this

   If consumers have no access to any independent bookstore, they should buy books from the chain bookstore with

   This actually contradicts the conclusion, which is saying that consumers should only buy from indies, thus never from big-chain.

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