Practice Test Ques - The judge told the criminal defendant

[daphyy]

Can anyone explain the reasoning for the following problem from 800Score?

The judge told the criminal defendant, “You are consistently deceitful and cannot be trust. Once you begin speaking honestly, I will begin believing you.”

Which of the following is assumed by the Judge’s statement?

A. The judge has explained what is wrong about lying
B. The judge has determined that the defendant knows what a lie is.
C. The judge knows when the defendant has been truthful.
D. The judge is routinely truthful with her defendant
E. The judge believes the defendant ultimately will tell the truth.


I chose B but OA: C

[dmateer25]

The key to this question is "Once you begin speaking honestly, I will begin believing you."

So we will be looking for some type of answer about the judge knowing when the defendant is speaking honestly.

A. The judge has explained what is wrong about lying
This is irrelevant
B. The judge has determined that the defendant knows what a lie is.
The judge won't know if the defendant is speaking honestly, so how will he believe the defendant?
C. The judge knows when the defendant has been truthful.
This one looks good to me.
D. The judge is routinely truthful with her defendant
This is irrelevant
E. The judge believes the defendant ultimately will tell the truth.
Irrelevant because the judge has to have a way of knowing it is the truth.

[pbanavara]

Just negate all the choices and the one that breaks the argument will be the assumption .. C does it.

- pradeep

[peter.p.81]

I agree with you guys. I also think that the right answer is C