Logical Reasoning

PT130 · S3 · Q13 Journalists sometimes use historical photographs

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Journalists sometimes use historical photographs to illustrate articles about current events.

Evidence

Journalists sometimes use historical photographs to illustrate articles about current events.

But this recycling of old photographs overstates the similarities between past and present, and thereby denies the individual significance of those current events.

Conclusion

Hence, the [recycling of old] photographs in this manner by journalists distorts public understanding of the present by presenting current events as mere repetitions of historical incidents.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that overstating the similarities between past and present distorts public understanding of the present.

It also assumes that denying the individual significance of the current events distorts public understanding of the present.

13.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the conclusion of the argument to be properly inferred?

  1. Any practice by which journalists

    Reversal

    This reverses the assumption of the argument.

    6% picked this

  2. Correct

    If the work of a

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap in the argument between over-stating the similarities be-tween past and present and distorting public under-standing of the present.

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

    73% picked this

  3. If a journalistic practice distorts

    Wrong Trigger / Wrong Outcome

    This answer contains a trigger that has not been established.

    14% picked this

  4. No article about a current

    Reversal

    This reverses a relationship that bridges the first premise with the conclusion.

    4% picked this

  5. If journalists believe current events

    Out of Scope

    What journalists believe is not relevant to the argument.

    2% picked this

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