Steve Is Visibly Overweight

question 49

Essay

Steve is visibly overweight.Steve goes to a store and says that he would like to buy a hammock suitable for someone like himself to sleep in.He makes it clear that it is up to the salesman to select a suitable hammock.The salesman selects a hammock that is perfectly suitable for a normally sized person but that cannot support someone of Steve's weight.Relying on the salesman's recommendation,Steve buys the hammock.After he is injured when the hammock collapses because it cannot bear his weight,Steve sues the store.Can Steve recover under the implied warranty of merchantability? What about an action under the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose? Assume that the store is a merchant with respect to hammocks.

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Definitions:

Expected Utility

A concept in economics and game theory measuring the anticipated benefit or satisfaction from an action, given uncertainties.

Content Effect

Performance variability on reasoning tasks that require identical kinds of formal reasoning but are dissimilar in superficial content.

MAUT

Multi-Attribute Utility Theory, a framework used in decision making to evaluate and compare choices based on multiple criteria.

Inductive Reasoning

A reasoning method where several assumptions, considered true or mostly true, are fused together to derive a particular outcome.