Logical Reasoning

PT115 · S2 · Q16 Biologists agree that human beings

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Biologists agree that human beings evolved from a fish, but they disagree about which species of fish.

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.

16.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the dispute above by the proposition that frogs are definitely related to the species of fish from which human beings evolved?

  1. Since it implies that human

    Trap

    2% picked this

  2. Since it implies that human

    Trap

    5% picked this

  3. It is offered as evidence

    Trap

    13% picked this

  4. Correct

    It is an assumption that

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    71% picked this

  5. It implies that either a

    Trap

    9% picked this

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