Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT1 S3 Q3 Explanation

Early in this century Alfred Wegener

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Stimulus

Early in this century Alfred Wegener developed the concept of continental drift. His ideas were rejected vehemently because he postulated no identifiable force strong enough to make the continents move. We have come to accept Wegener’s theory, not because we have pinpointed such allowed continental movement to be confirmed by observation.

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Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
3.

The passage best illustrates which one of the following statements

Answer choices

  1. Trap4% picked this

    The aim of science is to define the manifold of nature within the terms of

  2. Trap4% picked this

    In accepting a mathematical description of nature, science has become far more accurate at

  3. Trap3% picked this

    The paradox of science is that every improvement in its measuring instruments seems to make adequate theories

  4. Trap5% picked this

    Science, employing statistics and the laws of probability, is concerned not with the single event

  5. Correct84% picked this

    When the events a theory postulates are detected, the theory is accepted even without an explanation of how

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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