Logical Reasoning

PT112 · S3 · Q25 Anthropologist: All music is based

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Anthropologist: All music is based on a few main systems of scale building.

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.

25.

The anthropologist's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to

  1. consider the possibility that some

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  2. explain how innate dispositions increase

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  3. explain the existence of diatonic

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  4. Correct

    consider that innate dispositions and

    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.

    86% picked this

  5. consider whether any appreciation of

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