PrepTest 77, Section 2, Question 18
Historian: Those who claim that Shakespeare did not write the plays commonly attributed to him are motivated purely by snobbery. Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, whereas every other person proposed as the true author of the plays was an aristocrat, and many of those who argue that one or another of these aristocrats wrote the plays are the aristocrats' descendants.
Historian: Those who claim that Shakespeare did not write the plays commonly attributed to him are motivated purely by snobbery. Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, whereas every other person proposed as the true author of the plays was an aristocrat, and many of those who argue that one or another of these aristocrats wrote the plays are the aristocrats' descendants.
Historian: Those who claim that Shakespeare did not write the plays commonly attributed to him are motivated purely by snobbery. Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, whereas every other person proposed as the true author of the plays was an aristocrat, and many of those who argue that one or another of these aristocrats wrote the plays are the aristocrats' descendants.
Historian: Those who claim that Shakespeare did not write the plays commonly attributed to him are motivated purely by snobbery. Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, whereas every other person proposed as the true author of the plays was an aristocrat, and many of those who argue that one or another of these aristocrats wrote the plays are the aristocrats' descendants.
The reasoning in the historian's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
presumes, without providing justification, that a claim cannot be true if those who advance it are motivated by snobbery
takes for granted that anyone who is motivated purely by snobbery cannot also be motivated by legitimate historical evidence
fails to consider adequately the possible motives of those who claim that Shakespeare did write the plays commonly attributed to him
fails to exclude the possibility that there might be legitimate evidence motivating those who reject Shakespeare's authorship
makes use of an assumption that one would accept only if one has already accepted the truth of the conclusion
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