PT154 S4 Q20 ExplanationCritic: The more a novel

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal11% picked this

   No novel written by a serious novelist in fact appeals to

   Unrelated to Goal: doesn't have new term We're trying to prove that serious novelists "aren't motivated primarily by the desire to make money", but that idea never showed up in the evidence, so it must show up in the answer. If I'm trying to prove A = Z and the evidence gives me A = B and C = B, the correct answer has to provide a fact about Z. If I only have A = B, C = B, and some other fact that never mentions Z, then there's no way to combine those ingredients to derive A = Z.

   11%
2. B

   Correct70% picked this

   No novelist who cares about literary style is motivated primarily by the desire

   Why this is right

   This is what we predicted. The conclusion defines this logic path as our objective: Serious --------------------------> not primarily Novelist motiv by $ The premise gives us this part of the path: Serious -----> cares about Novelist literary style So the missing ingredient the answer needs to provide to complete our logic path: cares about ----> not primarily literary style motiv by $ That's precisely the conditional we get from this answer: "if you care about lit style, you're not motivated primarily by money".

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

   70%
3. C

   Bad Trigger Match7% picked this

   No novelist whose novels exhibit good literary style is motivated primarily by the desire

   This answer is worth considering because it is a rule that allows us to prove "not motivated primarily by money", which is our entire goal. Can we trigger it? Does it apply to serious novelists? Do serious novelists' novels "exhibit good literary style"? We don't know. We were only told they "care about literary style" not that they were good at it.

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4. D

   Bad Trigger Match7% picked this

   Any novelist who is motivated primarily by the desire to make money writes novels that in fact appeal

   This answer is worth considering because it is a rule that allows us to prove "not motivated primarily by money", which is our entire goal. We have to write this in contrapositive form to use it for our conclusion: novels don't appeal ? not motivated prim to the general public by desire for $$ Can we trigger it? Does it apply to serious novelists? Do we know that serious novelists' novels "don't appeal to the general public"? Nope. We were never told any facts about their novels. Notice how our conversational take on the argument makes this answer more appealing. Sufficient Assumption is not the time or place for using our conversational brain. It's rigid and mathematical.

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5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match5% picked this

   Any novel that in fact appeals to the general public was written by a novelist motivated primarily by

   We need a rule that allows us to prove "not motivated primarily by the desire to make money". This is a rule that can only prove "is motivated primarily by the desire to make money", so this answer is functionally useless to us.

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