Logical Reasoning

PT156 · S4 · Q6 Anthropologist: During the last ice age

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Anthropologist: During the last ice age, nomadic communities probably needed at least 15 or 20 members to survive, and they were generally not much larger than this.

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

6.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argumentation by the statement that ice-age nomads are commonly portrayed as primarily big-game hunters?

  1. It is a premise used

    Trap

    5% picked this

  2. It is a clarification of

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. It is an objection that

    Trap

    2% picked this

  4. It is the overall conclusion

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. Correct

    It describes a claim that

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    90% picked this

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