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Exercise Four -- KEY:

Given the work we have done in the preceding exercises, we are now in a position to take our steps and put them into standard form.  What follows is a standard form representation of those steps that we took with us from Exercises Two and Three.  (The status of the steps as EXPlicit or IMPlicit is indicated.)

1. If I am to be kind and accepting as opposed to enraged and vengeful, I must be with someone who is kind toward me.  (EXP -- 2, 6)
   
   
2. Humans cannot be kind toward me because of my appearance.  (EXP -- 7)
   
   
3. If humans can’t be kind to me, then someone else must be or I will wreak havoc. (IMP -- supported by 8 - 10)
   
   
4. The only option aside from humans is another created being. (IMP)
   
   
5. This someone will have to be created by you.  (IMP)
   
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6. You must create a companion for me. (EXP -- 12)

Note that the first step in this reconstruction is a combination of two explicit steps, the first of which is supported by a supplementary argument constituted by sentences (3) through (5).  One could reconstruct this by splitting up (2) and (6); however, the creature's point in those sentences does appear to be to contrast his current behavior with his desired behavior, and this way of phrasing it brings out that contrast explicitly.