Both physicians and school teachers can change people’s entire lives. Given that teachers may
be paid according to how well their students learn what is being taught, physicians may be
paid according to how well their patients do after receiving treatment.
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:This
passage contains an argument. The issue is whether physicians may be paid
according to how well their patients do after receiving treatment. The conclusion is that
physicians may be paid according to how well their patients do after receiving treatment. The
first premise is that physicians are like school teachers. The second premise is that teachers
may be paid according to how well their students learn what is being taught.
This argument contains a subargument. The intermediate conclusion is that physicians
are like school teachers. The premise is that both physicians and school teachers can change
people's entire lives.
This argument is an inductive analogical argument. The argument provides weak
evidence for the analogy. Only one similarity is given, and the sample contains only one
instance.
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