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Re: Patient: Pharmacists maintain that doctors should not be permitted [#permalink]
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Patient: Pharmacists maintain that doctors should not be permitted to sell the medicine that they prescribe because doctors would then be tempted to prescribe unnecessary medicines in order to earn extra income. But pharmacists have a financial interest in having a monopoly on the sale of prescription medicines, so their objection to the sale of medicines by doctors cannot be taken seriously.

The patient's argument proceeds by

(A) pointing out an unstated assumption on which the pharmacists argument relies and then refuting it

(B) attempting to discredit a position by questioning the motives of the proponents of that position

(C) undermining the pharmacists conclusion by demonstrating that one of the statements used to support the conclusion is false

(D) rejecting a questionable position on the grounds that the general public does not support that position

(E) asserting that pharmacists lack the appropriate knowledge to have informed opinions on the subject under discussion


My Approach:
A - Author doesn't seem to be making an assumption so A is out.
E. Pharmacists lack the knowledge is kinda out of context.
B. This makes sense that author is trying to discredit the position of pharmacist by questioning the motive. ( you will have to visualize the proponents of that position part)
C. Author is undermining the pharmacists conclusion but he is not demonstrating anything by using one of the statements or anything of that sort.
D. general public's support is out of context.

Note : I read options in the order of AEBCD. It helps me and kinda works for me. You are free to try it for a few questions and see if it works for you too.

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Re: Patient: Pharmacists maintain that doctors should not be permitted [#permalink]
Vyshak wrote:
Patient: Pharmacists maintain that doctors should not be permitted to sell the medicine that they prescribe because doctors would then be tempted to prescribe unnecessary medicines in order to earn extra income. But pharmacists have a financial interest in having a monopoly on the sale of prescription medicines, so their objection to the sale of medicines by doctors cannot be taken seriously.

The patient's argument proceeds by

(A) pointing out an unstated assumption on which the pharmacists argument relies and then refuting it

(B) attempting to discredit a position by questioning the motives of the proponents of that position

(C) undermining the pharmacists conclusion by demonstrating that one of the statements used to support the conclusion is false

(D) rejecting a questionable position on the grounds that the general public does not support that position

(E) asserting that pharmacists lack the appropriate knowledge to have informed opinions on the subject under discussion


Would anyone help me to get an explanation in detail why C is incorrect?
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