Online Course Support | Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments

Which of the following sentences could be added as a suppressed premise to make this argument valid?

 
 
 
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ANSWER: (iii) Mrs. Peacock did not commit the murder.

This suppressed premise makes the argument valid because every argument of the form “G or P, not P, so G” is valid. None of the other answers makes the argument valid.

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