Logical Reasoning

PT144 · S4 · Q4 Annette: To persuade the town council

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Annette: To persuade the town council to adopt your development plan, you should take them on a trip to visit other towns that have successfully implemented plans like yours.

Annette's Only Claim

If you wanna persuade the town council to adopt your plan, take them on a trip to visit other towns that have successfully implemented your plan.

Does Sefu Diagree?

Well, he kinda has to! Since there's only one claim, Sefu has to be saying that it would NOT be a good idea to take the town council on a trip to visit other towns.

He supports that idea by saying,

Goal

Since Annette only makes one claim, Sefu has to be disagreeing with that claim. She thinks that if Sefu wants his plan to be adopted, it would be a good idea to take the town council on a trip to other town, and he thinks it wouldn't be a good idea.

4.

The dialogue provides the most support for the claim that Annette and Sefu disagree over whether

  1. the council should adopt Sefu's

    Nobody Disagrees

    From these statements, we can't tell if either person thinks that the council should adopt Sefu's plan. This is just a conversation about whether a certain tactic would make it more likely that the council would adopt the plan. Common sense, not this text, tells us that Sefu thinks the council should adopt Sefu's plan, but we certainly don't have Annette arguing that the council shouldn't adopt Sefu's plan.

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  2. Correct

    Sefu should take the council

    Why this is right

    This is Annette's only claim, so it has to be the source of disagreement. She clearly thinks that Sefu should take the council on a trip, and he is arguing that would be a bad idea because it would be a bad look for the council (it would look like they were being unduly influenced by someone that was pressuring them to vote a certain way).

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  3. Sefu has a vested interest

    Nobody Disagrees

    Sefu clearly agrees with this, but we can't point to Annette arguing that Sefu has no vested interest in the council's votes. If anything, she seems to understand that he wants the council to vote a certain way.

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  4. other towns have successfully implemented

    Nobody Disagrees

    Annette clearly agrees that other towns have successfully implemented similar plans, but we can't point to Sefu saying, "No other town has ever successfully implemented a similar plan".

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  5. the appearance of undue influence

    Nobody Disagrees

    We can plausibly infer that Sefu agrees with this. He doesn't want to do Annette's plan because it would give the appearance of undue influence, so he clearly thinks that sort of things should be avoided. But we can't point to Annette arguing that it's okay to create the appearance of undue influence. We might think to ourselves, "well if she's PUSHING for this idea of taking the council to other towns, she must think you don't need to avoid the appearance of undue influence." But it's not clear that Annette has even considered that her idea may create the appearance of undue influence.

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