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Alphahydroxy acids also ON are found occurring naturally in sugarcane.
This food label is not AN mistaken (the alphahydroxy acids are natural).
The argument assumes ON → AN that chemically synthensized alphahyrdoxy acids are natural if alphahydroxy acids occur naturally in sugarcane.
Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen Sabina's argument?
The cookie company has recently
The issue at hand is the specific food label Gilbert and Sabina are discussing. What the company has done since those cookies were made is not relevant to this argument.
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Not all chemicals that are
Chemicals that are not ingredients are not relevant to the argument, since these cookies list alphahydroxy acids as an ingredient.
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The label was printed before
This could explain how the label came to be mistaken (if that is even the case), but it does not support the view that the label is not mistaken.
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Many other foods advertising all
It could be that their labels are also mistaken.
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All substances except those that
Why this is right
Since alphahydroxy acids ON ? AN occur naturally in sugarcane, this rule implies that alphahydroxy acids are considered natural.
Skill tested: Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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