Jewel collectors, fearing

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   Jewel collectors should collect only those jewels that provide the most

   This is a rule about which jewels collectors should collect. We need a rule about how jewelers should deem the value of something.

   2%
2. B

   Bad Premise Match1% picked this

   The value of a jewel should depend at least partly on

   This principle is correctly about how do deem a jewel's value, but it should be talking about how much aesthetic pleasure the jewel provides or whether the naked eye can distinguish it from another jewel. The premise had nothing to do with "market demand".

   1%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   It should not be assumed that everyone who likes diamonds receives the same degree of

   This is a rule that lets you conclude how much aesthetic pleasure you should / shouldn't assume someone gets from a diamond. We need a rule that helps us conclude that a diamond and a virtually identical counterfeit should be deemed of equal value.

   2%
4. D

   Correct89% picked this

   The value of a jewel should derive solely from the aesthetic

   Why this is right

   This is correctly a rule about how to determine the value of a jewel (the conclusion), and the basis for that is correctly talking about what was discussed in the premise (aesthetic value). Since the author is implying that counterfeits and genuine diamonds provide the same aesthetic pleasure, according to this rule they would be deemed to have equal value. If aesthetic pleasure is the sole measure of value, then things that provide equivalent aesthetic pleasure would be equivalently valuable.

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

   89%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal6% picked this

   Jewel collectors should not buy counterfeit jewels unless they are unable to distinguish counterfeit jewels

   This is a rule that would help us say that a jewel collector should not buy certain jewels. We need a rule that lets us say that a jewel collector should deem two jewels to be of equal value.

   6%