Logical Reasoning

PT133 · S2 · Q19 Style manual: Archaic spellings

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Style manual: Archaic spellings and styles of punctuation in direct quotations from older works are to be preserved if they occur infrequently and do not interfere with a reader's comprehension.

Given

Archaic spellings and styles of punctuation in direct quotations from older works are to be preserved if they occur infrequently and do not interfere with a reader’s comprehension.

However, if they occur frequently, the editor may modernize them, inserting a note with an explanation to this effect in the text, or if similar modernizing has been done in more than one quotation, inserting a general statement in the preface.

On the other hand, obvious typographical errors in quotations from modern works may be corrected without explanation.

19.

Which one of the following follows logically from the statements above?

  1. If an editor corrects the

    Contradiction

    The third statement indicates that spelling may be corrected without explanation.

    2% picked this

  2. An editor may modernize an

    Contradiction

    From the first and second statements the editor should preserve the archaic spelling of a quoted word or provide an explanation if it is modernized.

    12% picked this

  3. An editor should modernize an

    Negation

    This negates the first statement. ~F + IRC → ~P

    10% picked this

  4. Correct

    An editor may modernize punctuation

    Why this is right

    This answer provides more F + IRC → MM than enough information to trigger the second statement.

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

    70% picked this

  5. If an editor modernizes only

    Too Strong

    The second part of the second statement implies that if such modernizing has been done in more than one quotation, a statement in the preface should be included. But to say that is true if such modernizing has been done in only one of several similar instances goes beyond what can be inferred.

    5% picked this

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