A new center celebrating all religions is to be built in Dawn City. Si

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A new center celebrating all religions is to be built in Dawn City. Since statues depicting human beings are considered blasphemous in certain religions, the architect of the new center avoided including statues of men or women in her plans for the center so that no-one is offended.

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

A. All statues may be found objectionable by some people.

B. Not only statues of men but also statues of women may be found to be objectionable by some people.

C. Statues of human beings are not essential to the worship of any religion.

D. The inappropriateness of statues is discussed at length in many scriptures.

E. Some religions incorporate statues of animals in their ritual.

Bunuel · Accepted Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

A new center celebrating all religions is to be built in Dawn City. Since statues depicting human beings are considered blasphemous in certain religions, the architect of the new center avoided including statues of men or women in her plans for the center so that no-one is offended.

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

A. All statues may be found objectionable by some people.

Incorrect.

To solve this Assumption question, first break down the argument. Sentence 1 presents data, so it's a premise. Sentence 2 begins with a reason conjunction (since) so it begins with a premise and ends with the conclusion. The question stem also hints that the conclusion is made by the architect.

Now ask yourself: the architect believes omitting human statues from the plans will prevent anyone being offended. But what is she missing? What has the architect overlooked and assumed to be true?

While this answer choice may be true, it does not explain why the architect chose to omit particular statues in human form; if that were her assumption, she would be more likely to remove all statues.

B. Not only statues of men but also statues of women may be found to be objectionable by some people.

Incorrect.

This answer choice, stating that both statues of men and women may be objectionable to some, is merely repeating the premise that statues of human beings in general are objectionable in some religions. If this data appears in the premise, it cannot be the assumption made by the architect.

C. Statues of human beings are not essential to the worship of any religion.

The architect assumes that removing the statues won't hurt anyone, i.e., she assumes other religions are okay with not having any statues of human beings and that no religion requires such statues for its worship.

D. The inappropriateness of statues is discussed at length in many scriptures.

This answer choice presents a new premise concerning the inappropriateness of statues in scriptures . It is irrelevant whether this new data supports the conclusion; what you are looking for is the assumption, which should explain how the author drew the conclusion based on the existing premise.

E. Some religions incorporate statues of animals in their ritual.

Incorrect.

To solve this Assumption question, first break down the argument. Sentence 1 presents data, so it's a premise. Sentence 2 begins with a reason conjunction (since) so it begins with a premise and ends with the conclusion. The question stem also hints that the conclusion is made by the architect.

Now ask yourself: the architect believes omitting human statues from the plans will prevent anyone being offended. But what is she missing? What has the architect overlooked and assumed to be true?

This answer choice does not explain why the architect thinks removing statues of human beings would please everyone. In other words, it does not connect the existing premise with the conclusion.

carcass · Answer

A new center celebrating all religions is to be built in Dawn City. Since statues depicting human beings are considered blasphemous in certain religions, the architect of the new center avoided including statues of men or women in her plans for the center so that no-one is offended.

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

Which of the following is an assumption made by the architect of the center in Dawn City?

A. All statues may be found objectionable by some people.
 
 B. Not only statues of men but also statues of women may be found to be objectionable by some people.

C. Statues of human beings are not essential to the worship of any religion.

D. The inappropriateness of statues is discussed at length in many scriptures.
 
 E. Some religions incorporate statues of animals in their ritual.

There are not so many explanations for this.

We can avoid using statues of men or women to worship UNLESS they are essential those figures

C is the answer

minalgambhir · Answer

CONCLUSION - Architect avoided the statues of men and women so that no one is offended

PRE THINKING -

IN WHAT SCENARIO Architect did not avoid the statues of men and women?

GIVEN -

1) New center hall is being built to celebrate all religions
2) Statues of human beings are considered blasphemous in some religions

FALSIFICATION QUESTION - Statues are required in some religions
ASSUMPTION - Human statues are not required in any religion

ANSWER CHOICE ANALYSIS -

A) Objectionable statues not talked about in the argument
B) Statues of both men and women are considered, no distinction in the argument
C) CORRECT - Inline with our assumption
D) Inappropriateness not talked in the passage
E) Statues of animals not talked about in the passage

Maria240895chile · Answer

Premise:
In certain religions, human depict statues are considered blasphemous

Conclusion: if human depict statues are no included, no-one will be offended.

The author assumed that no-one will be offended with not including the statues in the center. In other words, statues are not important for the religions that actually uses them, so that religions will not be offended by the absence of the statues.

A. All statues may be found objectionable by some people.
Some people does not mean all people, and also we are talking about religions, not people in general.

B. Not only statues of men but also statues of women may be found to be objectionable by some people.
the argument only mentioned man and women statues, and again people is not the same as religions

C. Statues of human beings are not essential to the worship of any religion.
This is one reason why some religions would be offended. Accurate

D. The inappropriateness of statues is discussed at length in many scriptures.
out of scope

E. Some religions incorporate statues of animals in their ritual.
out of scope

Let me now if i'm wrong

naveensn19 · Answer

Option C: Statues of human beings are not essential to the worship of any religion.

However, assumption mentions "any" religion. That can be considered extreme.

If it is considered blasphemous in certain religion = in some other religions statues of men or women is not considered blasphemous.

How will this justify that human beings are not essential to worship in any religion.

And also, argument is about certain religions considering worship of men or women as blasphemous, not if it is essential or not.

So OA should be "B".

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