WATSON GLASER

Q1/Statement: Since more and more high school students plan to go to college, many new college buildings must be constructed.

Proposed Assumption: Existing college buildings are already overcrowded.

Assumption made

Assumption not made

Q2/Statement: If both gasoline prices and oil company profits rise dramatically, consumers would benefit financially if the government eliminated taxes on gasoline and replaced the lost revenue through increased taxes on oil company profits.

Proposed Assumption: Eliminating taxes on gasoline would benefit consumers financially by reversing some of the rise in gasoline prices.

Assumption made

Assumption not made

Q3/Statement: If both gasoline prices and oil company profits rise dramatically, consumers would benefit financially if the government eliminated taxes on gasoline and replaced the lost revenue through increased taxes on oil company profits.

Proposed Assumption: Other things being equal, increasing taxes on oil company profits would benefit consumers financially.

Assumption made

Assumption not made

Q4/Statement: A wise person will save some money each week.

Proposed Assumption: No fools have sense enough to save some money each week.

Assumption made

Assumption not made

Q5/Statement: A wise person will save some money each week.

Proposed Assumption: A person needs to be wise in order to save some money each week.

Assumption made

Assumption not made

Q6/Each of many retail businesses in Metroville is legally required to be licensed and pay an annual registration fee. No other businesses must pay annual registration fees. Every year, any business in Metroville that is legally required to be licensed must also pay local income taxes or local property taxes, or both. Therefore,

...Every business in Metroville that must pay an annual registration fee but no property tax in a given year must pay income tax in that year.

Conclusion follows

Conclusion does not follow

Q7/Each of many retail businesses in Metroville is legally required to be licensed and pay an annual registration fee. No other businesses must pay annual registration fees. Every year, any business in Metroville that is legally required to be licensed must also pay local income taxes or local property taxes, or both. Therefore,

...Any business in Metroville that is legally required to be licensed must pay an annual registration fee.

Conclusion follows

Conclusion does not follow