Logical Reasoning

PT113 · S2 · Q11 Mark: To convey an understanding

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Mark: To convey an understanding of past events, a historian should try to capture what it was like to experience those events.

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.

11.

Mark's and Carla's positions indicate that they disagree about the truth of which one of the following?

  1. The purpose of writing history

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. The participants in a battle

    Trap

    8% picked this

  3. Historians can succeed in conveying

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. Correct

    Historians should aim to convey

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    88% picked this

  5. Historians should use fictional episodes

    Trap

    0% picked this

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