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I understand why E is the best answer through process of elimination, but just want to understand the rationale for why the assumption that is made to arrive at that answer is acceptable. In other words, the logic would be that dogs outside of cage need less HELP then dogs inside the cage, which assumes that the cage signify a more "helpless" condition in the dogs mind that the conditions outside the cage, whatever they may be.

I think you may be going a bit outside of the scope and doing too much reasoning.

First, we are really not concerned with what could be the motivation that goes beyond the argument.

In this case, E) is a weak strengthener, but strengthener nevertheless. It tells us that the dog is releasing food into the cage because there’s another dog inside of that cage that it knows.

Rather than it is releasing the food into the cage because it sees a dog which may or may not be in another cage in which case it may not be releasing the food to that dog but just pulling on the lever when it sees a familiar dog.

There’s no pity or compassion here. We’re just strengthening the argument by tidying it up and saying that the food is released to the designated familiar dog as opposed to the food is released to any random dog and the pooling of the lever is triggered by a familiar dog not by the desire of giving that familiar dog food.

Sorry if this is a very complicated explanation. 😇
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Thanks for the explanation bb - that does make sense. Appreciate the response.
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I understand why E is the best answer through process of elimination, but just want to understand the rationale for why the assumption that is made to arrive at that answer is acceptable. In other words, the logic would be that dogs outside of cage need less HELP then dogs inside the cage, which assumes that the cage signify a more "helpless" condition in the dogs mind that the conditions outside the cage, whatever they may be.

I think you may be going a bit outside of the scope and doing too much reasoning.

First, we are really not concerned with what could be the motivation that goes beyond the argument.

In this case, E) is a weak strengthener, but strengthener nevertheless. It tells us that the dog is releasing food into the cage because there’s another dog inside of that cage that it knows.

Rather than it is releasing the food into the cage because it sees a dog which may or may not be in another cage in which case it may not be releasing the food to that dog but just pulling on the lever when it sees a familiar dog.

There’s no pity or compassion here. We’re just strengthening the argument by tidying it up and saying that the food is released to the designated familiar dog as opposed to the food is released to any random dog and the pooling of the lever is triggered by a familiar dog not by the desire of giving that familiar dog food.

Sorry if this is a very complicated explanation. 😇
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