Logical Reasoning

PT23 · S2 · Q5 A recently passed law

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A recently passed law requires all places of public accommodation to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities by removing all physical barriers to accessibility.

Conclusion

Private schools are legally obligated to make campuses physically accessible to people with disabilities.

Evidence

The law says that all places of public accommodation have to remove all physical barriers to accessibility for persons with disabilities. (i.e. make the place physically accessible to persons with disabilities.

Evaluate

This argument has a pretty straightforward form. What would we be assuming if we said this: All Yankees fans are jerks. Thus, Tommy is a jerk.

We'd be assuming that Tommy is a Yankees fan.

Here we have this: All places of public accommodation must be accessible. Thus, private schools must be accessible

So what are we assuming?

Goal

Private schools are places of public accommodation.

5.

The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. No private school can legally

    Unrelated to Goal

    This doesn't tell us that private schools are places of public accommodation. And it doesn't give us any new idea that would allow us to 100% prove that "private schools are legally obligated to make campuses accessible". It just says they're legally obligated to admit people with disabilities. In order to 100% prove the conclusion, you would need another logical connector, that says "if you're legally obligated to admit then you're legally obligated to make campus physically accessible".

    4% picked this

  2. Private schools have historically been

    Unrelated to Goal / Opposite

    This doesn't tell us that private schools are places of public accommodation. Our task is to pick an answer that, when combined with the existing evidence, proves the conclusion 100%. Would these two ideas prove the conclusion? all places of public accommodation must be accessible + private schools are historically reluctant to govt discrimination policies --------------- private schools must be accessible? Definitely not. That 2nd fact doesn't help us connect the wording of the law to private schools. Without knowing whether the law applies to private schools, we can't conclude that they are legally obligated to make it physically accessible.

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    Private schools, like public schools

    Why this is right

    This establishes that private schools are subject to the law we heard about. If they are a place of public accommodation, then they must make their campus physically accessible, so we have proven the conclusion. The part about public schools is totally irrelevant. It could've said "Private schools, like Tony's backyard, are places of public accommodation."

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

    91% picked this

  4. Private schools have enough funds

    Unrelated to Goal

    This doesn't tell us that private schools are places of public accommodation. So we still don't know whether they're even subject to this law.

    1% picked this

  5. Private property is often considered

    Too Weak

    This goes in the general drift of maybe private schools are places of public accommodation. But it doesn't establish it as a truth the way that (C) does.

    2% picked this

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