PrepTest 20, Section 3, Question 4
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.
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 before my first million dollars is in the bank.
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 before my first million dollars is in the bank.
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 responds to Whittaker by
showing that a relevantly analogous argument leads to an untenable conclusion
citing a specific example to counter Whittaker's general claim
pointing out that Whittaker mistakes a necessary situation for a possible situation
claiming that what Whittaker says cannot be true because Whittaker acts as if it were false
showing that Whittaker's argument relies on analyzing an extreme and unrepresentative case
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