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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
A it is
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
It is A. :rotate

The author has only evidence about female bats in braken caves.He goes on to derive a general conclusion from this.

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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
I think it is C

In A, there is no mention that the mother bat of the Bracken Cave can recognize the call of her pup so, how the argument be generalization of facts known abt a specific group?
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
B)..."establish the validity of one explanation for a phenomenon by excluding alternative explanations". the argument gives only one explanation for the phenomenon, but there might be more explanations. we dont know. but by not mentioning other explanations the author establishs the validity of his explanations. so B) just doesnt mention other reasons and thats how he is reasoning.

IMO A) is out because he only speaks of one group, the femal bats, that is the representative group. he does not speak of all members.

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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
(B). agree with chris.
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
Yes OA is B
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
B, agree
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
Hey chris! i am more than convinced after reading your explanation .

Can u elaborate more on the error in reasoning of a.who are 'all the members' and who are 'representative members' in this particular case?

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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
doloris wrote:
Hey chris! i am more than convinced after reading your explanation .

Can u elaborate more on the error in reasoning of a.who are 'all the members' and who are 'representative members' in this particular case?

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the representative group are female bats. the author states that each female bat can recognize the call of her pup. when the author would state as a conclusion that all female mammals can regognize their pup, A) would be right. the goup would be female mammals and this group would be represented by female bats. so its enough to analyse this subgroup and to come to this conclusion because the subgroup is representative. but thats not how the author reasons.
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
I think it's B. if you exclude pups ability to id their mothers, it must be the mothers who can successfully identify them to reunite with them at the end of the night.
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
Sometimes we tend to ignore the more obvious answers...like B. The author clearly says that "bats’ calls are their only means of finding one another" thus excluding alternate explainations.
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Re: Millions of female bats rear their pups in Bracken Cave. [#permalink]
Good explanation Christoph



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