Actual Cause Is Enough
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
18365_peter_handbell_clinic_poison · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because Peter's blow left Esther in a clinic room where Timothy could find her.
Why it's attractive
The answer proves only that the first assault created a setting for the later attack.
Why it's wrong
The answer proves only that the first assault created a setting for the later attack.
18365_peter_handbell_clinic_poison · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, because Esther would not have been at the clinic but for Peter's assault.
Why it's attractive
The answer proves factual cause but skips the proximate-cause limit.
Why it's wrong
The answer proves factual cause but skips the proximate-cause limit.
18365_peter_handbell_clinic_poison · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because Esther was improving and her fracture would not have killed her without Timothy's act.
Why it's attractive
The answer focuses on medical prognosis instead of the legal effect of Timothy's act.
Why it's wrong
The answer focuses on medical prognosis instead of the legal effect of Timothy's act.
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