Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT123 S3 Q5 Explanation

Atrens: An early entomologist observed

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TopicsSufficient Assumption

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Stimulus

Atrens: An early entomologist observed ants carrying particles to neighboring ant colonies and inferred that the ants were bringing food to their neighbors. Further research, however, revealed that the ants were Thus, the early entomologist was wrong.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
5.

Atrens’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following

Answer choices

  1. Too Weak3% picked this

    Ant societies do not interact in all the same ways that

    Corporations that do not currently use motivational posters aren’t relevant to the ones in the argument that do currently use motivational posters.

  2. Too Weak2% picked this

    There is only weak evidence for the view that ants have the capacity to make use

    This does not preclude the possibility that ants, in fact, make use of objects as gifts.

  3. Correct80% picked this

    Ant dumping sites do not contain particles that could be used

    Why this is right

    This provides the relationship that the contents of a dumping site are not food.

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

  4. Out of Scope8% picked this

    The ants to whom the particles were brought never carried the particles into

    How the particles were received is not relevant to the argument about why the particles were brought there by the colony emptying it’s site.

  5. Too Weak7% picked this

    The entomologist cited retracted his conclusion when it was determined that the particles the ants carried came

    That the entomologist retracted his conclusion does not prove that his conclusion was false.

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