Logical Reasoning

PT111 · S1 · Q2 Lecturer: Given our current state

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Lecturer: Given our current state of knowledge and technology, we can say that the generalization that the entropy of a closed system cannot decrease for any spontaneous process has not been falsified by any of our tests of that generalization.

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.

2.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most justifies the lecturer's classification of the generalization described above?

  1. Whatever is a scientific law

    Trap

    13% picked this

  2. If a generalization is confirmed

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. Whatever is true universally will

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. Correct

    If a generalization is confirmed

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    81% picked this

  5. Whatever is regarded as a

    Trap

    2% picked this

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