Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT132 S4 Q20 Explanation

Many workers who handled

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Stimulus

Many workers who handled substance T in factories became seriously ill years later. We now know T caused at least some of their illnesses. Earlier ignorance of this connection does not absolve T's manufacturer of all responsibility. For had it investigated the safety of it, many of their illnesses would have been prevented.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
20.

Which one of the following principles most helps to justify the

Answer choices

  1. Trap0% picked this

    Employees who are harmed by substances they handle on the job should be compensated for medical costs they

  2. Trap4% picked this

    Manufacturers should be held responsible only for the preventable consequences of

  3. Trap2% picked this

    Manufacturers have an obligation to inform workers of health risks of which

  4. Trap5% picked this

    Whether or not an action's consequences were preventable is irrelevant to whether a manufacturer should be held

  5. Correct89% picked this

    Manufacturers should be held responsible for the consequences of any of their actions that harm innocent people if

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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