Strengthen with Necessary Premise Questions - - Question 40
Harry Trevalga: You and your publication have unfairly discriminated against my poems. I have submitted thirty poems ...
LidaSeptember 2, 2019
Why not B
Hello,
I was stuck between answers B and C, and eventually chose B.
I understand why C is correct, but is there a way to rule out B?
Is it because the answer for B does not distinguish specifically why Trevalga's poem is discriminated, since B is a more broad statement for the argument?
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That's right, at its core the argument is about why his poems, in particular, are discriminated against. Harry is arguing that the editor has a personal vendetta against him, and the publisher tells him that it is impossible because the publisher never sees the names of the authors. The publisher is not saying your poems are not discriminated against because you only submitted thirty, and others submitted even more and had none published as (B) suggests, but the publisher specifically responds to Harry's point that the issue is HIS poems, arguing that there is no way for the editor to distinguish his poems and (C) is a necessary assumption for the publisher to conclude that he cannot possibly have known who wrote these poems.
