Logical Reasoning

PT8 · S1 · Q25 The great medieval universities had

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The great medieval universities had no administrators, yet they endured for centuries.

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.

25.

Which one of the following arguments contains flawed reasoning that most closely parallels the flawed reasoning in the argument above?

  1. No airplane had jet engines

    Trap

    21% picked this

  2. Correct

    The novelist’s stories began to

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    73% picked this

  3. After doctors began using antibiotics,

    Trap

    4% picked this

  4. A bicycle should not be

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. The great cities of the

    Trap

    2% picked this

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