LSAT-14-2-2 Garbage collect later than usual

pocahontas

delta2. Garbage in this neighborhood probably will not be collected until Thursday this week. Garbage is usually collected here on Wednesdays, and the garbage collectors in this city are extremely reliable. However, Monday was a public holiday, and after a public holiday that falls on a Monday, garbage throughout the city is supposed to be collected one day later than usual.

The argument proceeds by

(A) treating several pieces of irrelevant evidence as though they provide support for the conclusion

(B) indirectly establishing that one thing is likely to occur by directly ruling out all of the alternative possibilities

(C) providing information that allows application of a general rule to a specific case

(D) generalizing about all actions of a certain kind on the basis of a description of one such action

(E) treating something that is probable as though it were inevitable

key's c.看不懂原文推理，怎么holiday后面是monday，可以推出来要推迟一天？它是怎么想的？

lawyer_1

一般原则：公假日后，垃圾比平时后推一天收。

作者推理：这周一是公假日，平时都是周三收垃圾。根据上面原则，往后推迟一天就是周四。故C对

davecools

最后一句就是general rule。我想是因为星期一放假，星期一的工作就要推到星期二做。譬如垃圾从第一区到第五区轮流收，那我第三区就要等到星期四，说不定这个星期六就要加班了。说不定公众假期的加班费比一般周末的高。

Bensontuo

pocahontas 发表于 2004-7-28 17:03
delta2. Garbage in this neighborhood probably will not be collected until Thursday this week. Garbag ...

Spot the type of the question - Method of the reasoning

From the few words from all of the premises

1. Probably - Not exactly

2. usually - not always

3. extremely reliable - means it could be true that at least 1% of the time it could be unreliable.

Ok, lets check the conclusion, and we find 2 phrases, be supposed to, and later than usual.

Apparently, what happened here is author conclude what would be happened for a specific case based on what is likely to be happened usually from the general cases. Which is to say, author generalize the certain characteristic, high possibilities of something to be happened, of the majorities of event to conclude that particular event must be also sharing that high possibilities to have that thing also happens.

Answer C is perfectly matching with our analysis.