Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT112 S3 Q25 Explanation

Anthropologist: All music is based

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Stimulus

Anthropologist: All music is based on a few main systems of scale building. Clearly, if the popularity of a musical scale were a result of social conditioning, we would expect, given the diversity of social systems, a diverse mixture of diatonic and nondiatonic scales in the world’s music. Yet diatonic scales have music can be attributed only to innate dispositions of the human mind.

What this question is testing

Flaw

Your task

Describe the reasoning error the argument actually commits.

Common trap

Answers that name a real logical flaw the argument doesn't actually make.

Winning move

Articulate the gap in the reasoning yourself, then match it to the choice that describes that gap.

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The question
25.

The anthropologist’s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that

Answer choices

  1. Trap6% picked this

    consider the possibility that some people appreciate nondiatonic music more than they

  2. Trap6% picked this

    explain how innate dispositions increase appreciation of

  3. Trap4% picked this

    explain the existence of diatonic scales as well as the existence

  4. Correct84% picked this

    consider that innate dispositions and social conditioning could jointly affect the popularity of a

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap0% picked this

    consider whether any appreciation of nondiatonic music is demonstrated by some nonhuman

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