[XR7]

“I don’t know how to answer that,” translates as, “If I tell the truth, I’ll reveal the agenda, and if I lie, it will be obvious to anyone with two working brain cells.”

On that statement alone, how do you logically conclude that?

[Tax-chick]

I’m assuming that, as the Dean of a major college program, she knows “dispositions” that the program requires and the political and social values publically expressed by Justice Scalia. With that information, she could answer the question, if she chose to.

Of course, it’s possible that either or both of my assumptions is wrong. She could genuinely be ignorant of the necessary information.