Lopez: Our university is not committed to liberal arts, as evidenced by its decision to close the classics department. The study of classical antiquity is crucial to the liberal arts, and it has been so since the Renaissance. Warrington; Although the study of classical works is essential to the liberal arts, a classics department isn' t, since other departments often engage in that study. Warrington's argument proceeds by ["responding to a possible objection to the reasoning in Lopez's argument", "presenting a consideration in order to undermine the reasoning in Lopez's argument", "offering additional reasons in favor of the conclusion of Lopez's argument", "claiming that the reasoning in Lopez's argument rests on an illicit appeal to tradition"]