P: Because an elected official needs the support of a political party to be effective, the independent candidate for the legislature cannot possibly be an effective legislator if she wins.
Q: I disagree. By your reasoning, our current legislator, who has the support of a political party, ought to have been effective, but he has hot been.
Which one of the following is the best criticism of Q’s statement?
(A) It simply contradicts P’s claim without offering evidence against it.
(B) It does not consider the possibility that a political party might decide to support an elected legislator even though he or she ran as an independent.
(C) It fails to provide a precise definition for a key term—the word “effective.”
(D) It presupposes what is to be proved—that a legislator must have the support of a political party in order to be “effective.”
(E) It mistakenly interprets P to be claiming that a factor assures rather than is necessary for a legislator’s effectiveness.
Q: I disagree. By your reasoning, our current legislator, who has the support of a political party, ought to have been effective, but he has hot been.
Which one of the following is the best criticism of Q’s statement?
(A) It simply contradicts P’s claim without offering evidence against it.
(B) It does not consider the possibility that a political party might decide to support an elected legislator even though he or she ran as an independent.
(C) It fails to provide a precise definition for a key term—the word “effective.”
(D) It presupposes what is to be proved—that a legislator must have the support of a political party in order to be “effective.”
(E) It mistakenly interprets P to be claiming that a factor assures rather than is necessary for a legislator’s effectiveness.
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