Logical Reasoning

PT135 · S4 · Q12 The best jazz singers use their voices

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The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments.

Main Conclusion

Jazz consists largely of voice-like horns and horn like voices.

Intermediate Conclusion

The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments.

Premises

The great Billie Holiday thought of her singing voice as a horn, reshaping melody and words to increase their impact.

Conversely, jazz horn players achieve their distinctive sounds by emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.

12.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argument by the claim that the best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments?

  1. It is the argument's main

    Wrong Role

    The claim is an intermediate conclusion and not the argument’s main conclusion.

    16% picked this

  2. It is the argument's only

    Contradiction

    The claim is one of two conclusions in the argument.

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    It is a statement for

    Why this is right

    This correctly describes the role of the claim as an intermediate conclusion.

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

    70% picked this

  4. It is a statement for

    Contradiction

    The claim is supported by another claim in the argument.

    5% picked this

  5. It is a statement used

    Contradiction

    The claim supports the argument’s main conclusion directly, while this answer suggests that it supports an intermediate conclusion of the argument.

    5% picked this

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