Logical Reasoning

PT2 · S4 · Q21 Efficiency and redundancy are contradictory

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Efficiency and redundancy are contradictory characteristics of linguistic systems; however, they can be used together to achieve usefulness and reliability in communication.

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.

21.

If all of the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true?

  1. Efficiency causes a spoken language

    Trap

    3% picked this

  2. Neither efficiency nor redundancy can

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. If a spoken language were

    Trap

    4% picked this

  4. If the human auditory system

    Trap

    12% picked this

  5. Correct

    If the human auditory system

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    78% picked this

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