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Whittaker: There can be no such thing as the number of [#permalink]
 24 Jul 2004, 09:42
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Whittaker: There can be no such thing as the number of medical school students who drop out before their second year, because if they drop out, they never have a second year.
Hudson: By your reasoning I cannot help but become rich, because there is similarly no such thing as my dying beforemy first million dollars is in the bank.
Hudson responds to Whittaker by
(A) showing that a relevantly analogous argument leads to an untenable conclusion
(B) citing a specific example to counter Whittaker’s general claim
(C) pointing out that Whittaker mistakes a necessary situation for a possible situation
(D) claiming that what Whittaker says cannot be true because Whittaker acts as if it were false
(E) showing that Whittaker’s argument relies on analyzing an extreme and unrepresentative case
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A?
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Yeah... only A sounds fine to me. The rest seem to be incorrect...
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it is B, i think
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A is correct.
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