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The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is certainly imprecise, because we are not sure how different from use something might be and still count as "intelligent life" Yet we cannot just decide to define "intelligent life" in some more precise way since it is likely that we will find and recognize intelligent life elsewhere in the universe only if we leave our definitions open to new, unimagined possibilities.

The passage, if seen as an objection to an antecedent claim, challenges that claim by:

(A) showing the claim to be irrelevant to the issue at hand

(B) citing examples that fail to fit proposed definition of "intelligent life"

(C) claiming that "intelligent life" cannot be adequately defined.

(D) arguing that the claim, if acted on, would be counterproductive

(E) maintaining that the claim is not supported by the available evidence.
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31 Mar 2004, 13:51

Geethu,
Can you explain your answer please.

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31 Mar 2004, 14:00

I go fro D:

the last sentence of the paragraph says that if we define "Intelligent Life" then there might be something that is really intelligent life and if it does not meet the definition of "intelligent life", then it might go undiscovereed or its value may not be worth for us. So it might be counter productive.

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31 Mar 2004, 19:57

I agree with D.
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31 Mar 2004, 20:02

Yes, the official answer is D.
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