Lance: If experience teaches us

Answer choices

1. A

   Not Circular / Bad Premise Match5% picked this

   demonstrating that Lance assumes the very thing he sets out

   Frank isn't accusing Lance of circular reasoning. Lance doesn't make an argument. He just says one claim, which the question stem calls a conclusion. You can't have a circular conclusion. What he showed instead is that the conclusion is self-contradicting.

   5%
2. B

   Correct91% picked this

   showing that Lance's conclusion involves him in

   Why this is right

   Franks says to Lance, "If we assume your conclusion is true, that every general rule has at least one exception, then there is at least one general without an exception." So he does show Lance that his conclusion is self-contradictory.

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

   91%
3. C

   Bad Conclusion Match2% picked this

   showing that no general rule can

   Frank's conclusion only only telling Lance to retract his statement. Frank certainly doesn't think that ALL general rules have exceptions, because that's self-contradictory, but he still might believe that SOME general rules have exceptions.

   2%
4. D

   Bad Premise Match2% picked this

   establishing that experience teaches us the opposite of what

   Frank doesn't refer to experience at all. Only Lance does. Frank just attacks the internally-contradictory logic of Lance's general rule.

   2%
5. E

   Bad Premise Match0% picked this

   showing that it has no implications for any

   Frank doesn't discuss any real cases. He's purely hypothetical, pointing out the internal logic of the rule itself.

   0%