Please Explain why B is Incorrect

Started by mahosmar · started 2020-01-20 16:30 · last activity 2020-01-20 19:20 · 1 reply

I understand why A is correct, but B does bring up two similar situations, and I took the reference to the "latter" situation to be the one that the author's reference to trusting news stories.

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  1. Ravi · 2020-01-20 19:20

    @mahosmar, Let's look at (B). (B) says, "drawing an analogy between an attitude commonly adopted in one situation and a different attitude commonly adopted in another situation, and establishing that the latter attitude is better justified than the former" The problem with (B) is that there aren't different attitudes; rather, the author believes that one should feel the same way about the two situations. Thus we can get rid of this choice, as it's not correctly explaining how the columnist is proceeding with her argument. Does that make sense? Let us know if you have any other questions!

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