This assumption overlooks other criteria for determining a bridge’s importance - such as the number of commuters using the bridge, the role of the bridge in local emergencies and disasters, and the impact that bridge closure would have on the economies of nearby cities.

Without such evidence, we cannot accept the author’s conclusion that no government funds should be directed toward maintaining the Styx River bridge.

The fact that the nearby city has a weakening economy does not prove that the city will not contribute significantly to tax revenues.

Substantiating this assumption requires examining the proper duty of government.

Accordingly, this assumption is simply an unproven claim.

The author is presenting a false dilemma by imposing an either - or choice between two courses of action that need not be mutually exclusive.

It is equally possible that legislators can address both areas of concern concurrently.

The argument relies on the assumption that the legislators in question(所讨论的)have the opportunity to address urban crime problems.

Finally, the author unfairly trivializes the severity of rural crime by simply comparing it with urban crime.

It is possible that the sales trend in a particular location is not representative of sales in other regions.

However, the author fails to acknowledge and rule out other possible causes of such accidents.

A third problem with the argument is that the statistical evidence upon which it relies is too vague to be informative.

If the subjects for the study were randomly chosen and represent a diverse cross section of the population of shampoo users, the results will be reliable regardless of the number of participants.

Experience alone is far from being enough to guarantee minimized processing costs.

Given that Olympic Foods does benefit from lowered processing costs due to its years of experience, the prediction about maximum profits is still in lake of solid ground.