PT50, S4, Q8 - Otis: Aristotole's principle

[todavidzheng]

Could someone please help to explain why D is not correct???
I can understand why B is correct, but why D is not?
I think if you ask Otis and Tyra for their opinion of D, you would have gotten two opposite answers.

Thanks!

[clarafok]

hello,

i got this question wrong too...i also thought that if you ask ottis and tyra about D, they would've disagreed. is B right just because it mentions 'we should treat relevantly similar cases similarly'?

thanks!

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Thanks for bringing this question to the forum!

The big issue with answer choice (D) is that neither Tyra nor Otis address the issue of whether a dentist should be willing to schedule an after-hours appointment for anyone who asks.

Otis says that it's unjust for a dentist to be willing to do so for friends but not others. Tyra says that it's not unjust. So potentially they may both think that dentists should offer after-hours appointments for anyone (even if in reality, these dentists do not).

In short, whether dentists should be willing to schedule these appointments is not discussed.

Does that answer your question?

Answer choice (B) is a point of disagreement since Otis would say that situations involving friends and situations involving others are similar whereas Tyra would say that they are not. We can infer this since Tyra accepts Aristotle's principle but comes to a different judgment regarding the dentists.

Let me know if you still have questions on this one!