Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text.The car usually makes it over the hills between here and the lake without any trouble. The only time it makes any trouble is when we have to pull the boat and trailer; they must make too heavy a load for the car's small engine.
What will be an ideal response?
Common variable principle, although reading the first part of the second sentence as "The car makes trouble if and only if the boat is pulled" allows a relevant-difference interpretation as well. (That isn't what the sentence says, but...)
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