Instruction: Is the hypothesis unrelated or neutral to the premise? Premise: Who can, for instance, blame a youth with but a mildly evil disposition from guffawing when he reads in Pater's Marius The Epicurean (Chapter V) a reference to Apuleius' The Golden Ass noting that  all through the book, there is an unmistakably real feeling for asses ...  Hypothesis: Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean.
Who can, for instance, blame a youth with but a mildly evil disposition from guffawing when he reads in Pater's Marius The Epicurean (Chapter V) a reference to Apuleius' The Golden Ass noting that  all through the book, there is an unmistakably real feeling for asses ... ###Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean.