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It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent. Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Which of the following, if true, most validates the argument?

A. A survey of college administrators found that many believe faculty/student dating is morally wrong.
B. College professors should behave in an ethical manner.
C. Professors are forbidden from dating students at many universities.
D. Some professors who date students have had prior ethical complaints made against them for such behavior.
E. Professors who date students may be in danger of losing their positions if the relationship is discovered.
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[quote="Ben471"]It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent. Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Which of the following, if true, most validates the argument?

A. A survey of college administrators found that many believe faculty/student dating is morally wrong....
Survey of college adminstrators is out of scope

B. College professors should behave in an ethical manner........correct option......college professors should behave in an ethical manner.

C. Professors are forbidden from dating students at many universities......"many universities" is wrong...the argument is in general

D. Some professors who date students have had prior ethical complaints made against them for such behavior.......prior ethical complaint s not associated with the argument.

E. Professors who date students may be in danger of losing their positions if the relationship is discovered......irrelevant

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It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent. Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Which of the following, if true, most validates the argument?

A. A survey of college administrators found that many believe faculty/student dating is morally wrong.
B. College professors should behave in an ethical manner.
C. Professors are forbidden from dating students at many universities.
D. Some professors who date students have had prior ethical complaints made against them for such behavior.
E. Professors who date students may be in danger of losing their positions if the relationship is discovered.
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IMO B.

Premise:
It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent.
Conclusion:
Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Logical gap: College professor should not be unethical.

Option B clearly fills this logical gap and hence is the correct answer.
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College professors should behave in an ethical manner.
Premise:
It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent.
Conclusion:
Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.
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Evidence - > It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent.

Conclusion - > Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Option that ties up evidence with conclusion is option B.
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Kaplan. I mean what is this? Do you really think this fits in any of the question type?
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It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent. Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Which of the following, if true, most validates the argument?

A. A survey of college administrators found that many believe faculty/student dating is morally wrong.
B. College professors should behave in an ethical manner.
C. Professors are forbidden from dating students at many universities.
D. Some professors who date students have had prior ethical complaints made against them for such behavior.
E. Professors who date students may be in danger of losing their positions if the relationship is discovered.
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lol, this is a merely self-made question. !!
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It is unethical for a college professor to pursue a romantic relationship with a student, even if the student is at the age of legal consent. Therefore, no college professor should ever initiate such a relationship with a student.

Which of the following, if true, most validates the argument?

A. A survey of college administrators found that many believe faculty/student dating is morally wrong.
B. College professors should behave in an ethical manner.
C. Professors are forbidden from dating students at many universities.
D. Some professors who date students have had prior ethical complaints made against them for such behavior.
E. Professors who date students may be in danger of losing their positions if the relationship is discovered.
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Solution:

Premise:Romantic relationship between professor and student [RR] -> Unethical [U]
Premise:???
Conclusion: Therefore, No relationship should be initiated [~RR]

For the conclusion to be true, the argument needs another premise stating [~U] in order to satisfy the relationship [~U] ->[ ~RR]. Therefore, [~U] is being ethical. Answer is B.
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The major premise backing up the author’s conclusion is that dating a student, regardless of legal age of consent, is unethical for any professor.

Based on this piece of evidence (which we accept as a factual premise) the author makes a value claim by saying “professors SHOULD Not date their students.”


1 way to strengthen an argument’s conclusion is to bring an unstated assumption to light. By explicitly stating the assumption, this adds an explicit fact that will strengthen the claim.

Following the author’s line of reasoning, he or she is essentially saying that because this activity is unethical, any professor should not engage in the activity.

The author, in making his value claim (i.e, should), must be necessarily assuming that if an activity is unethical, then a professor should NOT engage in it.


If it were true that a professor can engage in any activity, ethical or unethical, then this entire value argument about what the professor “should” do completely falls apart.

Answer B brings the assumption to light by making it an explicit premise. By providing info. that says “professors should act in an ethical manner,” the answer choice bolsters the author’s claim that professor SHOULD not engage in this one particular unethical activity: dating students.

In this way answer B is correct.

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