Logical Reasoning

PT123 · S3 · Q5 Atrens: An early entomologist observed

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Atrens: An early entomologist observed ants carrying particles to neighboring ant colonies and inferred that the ants were bringing food to their neighbors.

Opposing Point

An early entomologist observed ants carrying particles to neighboring ant colonies and inferred that the ants were bringing food to their neighbors

Evidence

Further research, however, DS revealed that the ants were emptying their own colony’s dumping site.

Conclusion

Thus, the early entomologist ~F was wrong [it was not food].

Evaluate

The argument assumes DS → ~F that if the ants were emptying their own colony’s dumping site, then the ants were not bringing food to their neighbors.

5.

Atrens's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. Ant societies do not interact

    Too Weak

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

    3% picked this

  2. There is only weak evidence

    Too Weak

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

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    Ant dumping sites do not

    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.

    80% picked this

  4. The ants to whom the

    Out of Scope

    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.

    8% picked this

  5. The entomologist cited retracted his

    Too Weak

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

    7% picked this

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