Principle: Anyone who has more

Answer choices

1. A

   Doesn't Establish #232% picked this

   Some of the books that Kessler currently has out on loan from the library are not children's books, and Kessler was fined last year

   This tells us that he was previously fined for an overdue book, but we don't know whether one of his 3 overdue books is a non-children's book. He might have 10 books out on loan, 3 of them overdue, 7 of them not overdue. The principle needs to know that one of this overdue books is non-children's, and this information isn't specific enough for us to know.

   32%
2. B

   Correct42% picked this

   One of the overdue books that Kessler currently has out on loan from the library is a novel for adults, and Kessler was fined

   Why this is right

   This establishes both. - one of his overdue books is a novel for adults (for not-children) - he was fined previously for overdue books They tried to make this harder by using "for adults" as a proxy for "not children's books". If you caught yourself arguing with this answer, thinking, how do we know children aren't reading a novel for adults?! , it's about how these books are categorized within the library, not a real-world sense of "Who is this book for?" The library, common sense would tell us, has some books categorized as children's books and other books not categorized that way. A "novel for adults" has clearly not been categorized as a children's book.

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

   42%
3. C

   Doesn't Establish #314% picked this

   None of the books that Kessler currently has out on loan from the library is a children's book and in previous years

   Since all of K's checked out books are non-children's, we know that the 3 overdue books must all be non-children's. But, this fails to establish that K was fined in previous years for late books.

   14%
4. D

   Doesn't Establish #210% picked this

   Kessler was fined by the library several times in the past for overdue books, but none of the overdue books for which

   Now we know that he has been fined in the past for overdue books. However, we still don't know whether any of his current overdue books are non-children's.

   10%
5. E

   Ruins #32% picked this

   Kessler has never before been fined for overdue books, but the three overdue books that Kessler currently has out on loan from

   As soon as we find out that he's never been fined for overdue books, we're done. This principle won't apply to him.

   2%