PT150 S2 Q6 ExplanationJohn's literature professor believes

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Unsupported20% picked this

   John's literature professor can judge the greatness of works of

   This answer would require that we know, "All literature professors can judge the greatness of literary works". We don't know that. We know that all literature professors have the years of specialized training require to judge greatness, but this answer choice is acting like we were told, "If you have the specialized training, then you can judge greatness". Instead, we were only told, "If you don't have the specialized training, then you can't judge greatness". Formally, we were given these relationships Lit Pro → Training Judge Greatness → Training And this answer is trying to derive this relationship Lit Pro → Judge Greatness

   20%
2. B

   Unknown Group4% picked this

   Anyone who is not a literature professor cannot judge the greatness of works

   This answer says something must be true of every single person in the universe who isn't a literature professor. Do any of these claims talk about every who isn't a literature professor. No. So we can't derive this idea. We can prove this answer could be false by thinking, "couldn't there be someone who has years of specialized training but isn't a literature professor?" If so, that person could be someone who "isn't a literature professor" but who still can judge the greatness of literary works. Formally, we were given these relationships ~Training → ~literature professor ~Training → ~Judge Greatness And this answer is trying to derive this relationship ~ literature professor → ~ Judge Greatness which, of course we can't. That would just be inventing a causal arrow between the outcomes of those two statements.

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3. C

   Out of Scope: should0% picked this

   Specialized training like that received by John's literature professor should be more broadly available to members

   On Most Supported questions, we might occasionally pick an answer using "should" language, even when none of the claims used "should" language (if the paragraph establishes that something is bad / toxic / injurious, it supports the claim that you shouldn't do it .... if something is good / beneficial, it supports the claim that you should do it). But that would never be the case on Must Be True. You can't derive "should / should not" ideas unless you're given that language in the paragraph.

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4. D

   Too Strong2% picked this

   Literature professors do not belong to the

   We know that the vast majority of the public (let's say 98% of people) don't have access to specialized training, so they could not be literature professors. But the other 2% of the reading public does have access to specialized training, so they could still be literature professors.

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5. E

   Correct74% picked this

   The vast majority of the reading public is unable to judge the greatness of works

   Why this is right

   This is one of the two ideas we derived initially: Vast majority of the reading public can't be a literature professor. Vast majority of the reading public can't judge the greatness of literary works. By combining the last sentence with the first, vast majority no access to of the reading = specialized training public + no specialized → can't judge training greatness we can derive vast majority of the reading = can't judge greatness public

   Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   74%