Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT2 S4 Q17 Explanation

Every photograph, because it involves the light

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Stimulus

Every photograph, because it involves the light rays that something emits hitting film, must in some obvious sense be true. But because it could always have been made to show things differently than it does, it cannot express the whole truth and, can ever be definitively proved with a photograph.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
17.

Which one of the following is an assumption that would permit the conclusion above to

Answer choices

  1. Correct83% picked this

    Whatever is false in the sense that it cannot express the whole truth cannot

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

  2. Trap2% picked this

    The whole truth cannot be

  3. Trap11% picked this

    It is not possible to determine the truthfulness of a photograph

  4. Trap2% picked this

    It is possible to use a photograph as corroborative evidence if there is additional evidence establishing the truth

  5. Trap2% picked this

    If something is being photographed, then it is possible to prove definitively the

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