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The below question type (logical role) is an achilles' heel for me. Can anyone please explain me this in bits and pieces? thank you.
Mr. Mead: Turning this subway system over to private ownership will surely not make it financially viable. After all, the reason the system is now government-owned is precisely that in 1979 its original private owners went bankrupt operating it.
Ms. Gallis: But remember that government price controls were keeping fares unreasonably low in the 1970's.
Of the following, the best assessment of the logical role played by Ms. Gallis' response is that her response
(A) offers additional evidence for the correctness of Mr. Mead's conclusion
(B) states one of Mr. Mead's tacit assumptions
(C) contradicts Mr. Mead's factual claims about the system's original owners
(D) identifies a weakness in the evidence Mr. Mead uses as a basis for his conclusion
(E) implies that Mr. Mead's conclusion is correct, but not for the reasons Mr. Mead gives
Mr. Mead: Turning this subway system over to private ownership will surely not make it financially viable. After all, the reason the system is now government-owned is precisely that in 1979 its original private owners went bankrupt operating it.
Ms. Gallis: But remember that government price controls were keeping fares unreasonably low in the 1970's.
Of the following, the best assessment of the logical role played by Ms. Gallis' response is that her response
(A) offers additional evidence for the correctness of Mr. Mead's conclusion
(B) states one of Mr. Mead's tacit assumptions
(C) contradicts Mr. Mead's factual claims about the system's original owners
(D) identifies a weakness in the evidence Mr. Mead uses as a basis for his conclusion
(E) implies that Mr. Mead's conclusion is correct, but not for the reasons Mr. Mead gives
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Updated on: 12 May 2009, 00:15
Originally posted by Minheequang on 11 May 2009, 21:43.
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IMO E --> rechoose D
(A) offers additional evidence for the correctness of Mr. Mead's conclusion -->impressive but he doesn't offer evidence to support for Mr Mead's conclusion.
(B) states one of Mr. Mead's tacit assumptions --> Mr Mead's assumption is all about the weakness private ownership, not about government ownership
(C) contradicts Mr. Mead's factual claims about the system's original owners -->no contradiction is made here
(D) identifies a weakness in the evidence Mr. Mead uses as a basis for his conclusion -->weakness is in analysis, not in evidence --> choose it by POE, but do not really comprehend what is weakness in evidence. I merely think that there's only weakness in analysis, and incorrect evidence
(E) implies that Mr. Mead's conclusion is correct, but not for the reasons Mr. Mead gives -->yes. Mr Gallis doesn't deny the correctness of Mr Mead's conclusion. However, he gives another reason for the issue: because governmental price control system imposed the subway's ticket at too low fare, the subway system under private ownership couldn't be financially profitable. It's not that bankrupcy of the private owners causing the negative performance -->man, quickly done, quickly wrong. Mr Gallis implicitly opposes to Ms Mead's conclusion
(A) offers additional evidence for the correctness of Mr. Mead's conclusion -->impressive but he doesn't offer evidence to support for Mr Mead's conclusion.
(B) states one of Mr. Mead's tacit assumptions --> Mr Mead's assumption is all about the weakness private ownership, not about government ownership
(C) contradicts Mr. Mead's factual claims about the system's original owners -->no contradiction is made here
(D) identifies a weakness in the evidence Mr. Mead uses as a basis for his conclusion -->weakness is in analysis, not in evidence --> choose it by POE, but do not really comprehend what is weakness in evidence. I merely think that there's only weakness in analysis, and incorrect evidence
(E) implies that Mr. Mead's conclusion is correct, but not for the reasons Mr. Mead gives -->yes. Mr Gallis doesn't deny the correctness of Mr Mead's conclusion. However, he gives another reason for the issue: because governmental price control system imposed the subway's ticket at too low fare, the subway system under private ownership couldn't be financially profitable. It's not that bankrupcy of the private owners causing the negative performance -->man, quickly done, quickly wrong. Mr Gallis implicitly opposes to Ms Mead's conclusion
11 May 2009, 22:52
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I will go with D
Premise :system is now government-owned is precisely that in 1979 its original private owners went bankrupt operating it.
assumption: Govt didn't control the prices to be unreasonably low in 1970's
Conclusion:Turning this subway system over to private ownership will surely not make it financially viable
Ms. Gallis attacking the Mr Mead assumption which leads to conclusion.
