Invented Timing Condition
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
19484_two-quarrymen · CRIMINAL · Choice ACaleb is not an actual cause because Stephen would have died from Boaz's slab alone.
Why it's attractive
premise true (victim would die from the other slab) but conclusion omits the substantial-factor exception
Why it's wrong
premise true (victim would die from the other slab) but conclusion omits the substantial-factor exception
19484_two-quarrymen · CRIMINAL · Choice BCaleb is an actual cause only if his slab struck Stephen before Boaz's slab.
Why it's attractive
stem fixes the strikes as simultaneous; 'only if struck first' demands a fact the stem negates and a rule that does not exist
Why it's wrong
stem fixes the strikes as simultaneous; 'only if struck first' demands a fact the stem negates and a rule that does not exist
19484_two-quarrymen · CRIMINAL · Choice DCaleb is not an actual cause because the simultaneous nature of the slabs means neither blow individually caused Stephen's death.
Why it's attractive
stem says each slab independently caused death; 'neither blow individually caused death' fights the facts
Why it's wrong
stem says each slab independently caused death; 'neither blow individually caused death' fights the facts
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