Logical Reasoning

PT6 · S2 · Q17 From a book review: The authors

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From a book review: The authors blithely claim that there are “three basic ways to store energy: as heat, as electricity, or as kinetic energy.” However, I cannot call to mind any effective ways to store energy as electricity, whereas any capable student of physics could readily suggest a few more ways to store energy: chemical, gravitational, nuclear.

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.

17.

The reviewer makes which one of the following criticisms of a claim that appears in the book under review?

  1. There is no reason to

    Trap

    3% picked this

  2. Correct

    The list given of ways

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    73% picked this

  3. It is overly limiting to

    Trap

    8% picked this

  4. What needs to be considered

    Trap

    14% picked this

  5. Except possibly for electricity, all

    Trap

    3% picked this

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