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A gardener says: 'All roses in this garden require daily watering. This flower is a rose from this garden. Therefore, this flower requires daily watering.'
What is the role of the statement 'This flower is a rose from this garden'?
- It is a counter-argument that opposes the idea that flowers need any water.
- It serves to prove that every single flower in existence must be watered each day.
- It is the broad general principle about all roses on which the entire argument rests here.
- It is a premise that supplies the specific fact to which the general rule is applied.
- It is the main conclusion that the gardener's argument is ultimately trying to establish here.
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