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The Iliad and the Odyssey DTV differ greatly in tone and vocabulary and in certain details of the fictional world they depict.
The Iliad and the Odyssey SP are almost certainly not the work of the same poet.
The argument assumes that DTV → SP two works that differ greatly in tone and vocabulary and in certain details of the fictional world they depict are not the work of the same poet.
Which one of the following statements, if true, most weakens the reasoning above?
Several hymns that were also
Unless it were known that Homer wrote the Iliad, this would not support the view that Homer could have written both.
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Both the Iliad and the
Minor copying errors and other textual corruptions are too weak to explain the great difference in tone and vocabulary.
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Works known to have been
Why this is right
This attacks the assumption DTV + ~SP by finding a relevant counterexample.
Skill tested: Weaken · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
61% picked this
Neither the Iliad nor the
Having minor discrepancies in the respects mentioned within a work that is produced by a single author is not strong enough to provide a counterexample to the assumption that great differences in tone and vocabulary imply that two works are not by the same author.
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Both the Iliad and the
This strengthens the conclusion that the works were not the result of a single author.
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