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Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   13 Jul 2015, 08:14
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Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who roam at night to suck the blood of living people— as able to turn into bats. As a result of the pervasive influence of this novel, many people now assume that a vampire's being able to turn into a bat is an essential part of vampire myths. However, this assumption is false, for vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?


(A) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as strictly nocturnal.

(B) Vampire myths in Central and South America, where real vampire bats are found, portray vampires as able to turn into bats.

(C) Vampire myths did not exist outside Europe before the publication of Stoker's Dracula.

(D) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as able to turn into bats.

(E) At the time he wrote Dracula, Stoker was familiar with earlier European vampire myths.
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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   20 Jul 2015, 00:27
I will go with D). However, I have other choice A) as its contender.

Can someone explain why A) is incorrect?
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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   20 Jul 2015, 04:17
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I was able to get only D.Here are my 2 cents:

Conculsion: vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book. The myth per se "the vampires turning into bats"

In A the option talks about "the vampires being nocturnal"..

For assumptions we follow the negation test:

Negate option A: At least one book.. potrayed vampires as strictly nocturnal.

Now we see that even if we negate option A... the conclusion is still possible...ie. we can have such a book that portrayed vampires as nocturnal while still saying that vampires dint transform into bats.

Negate option D: No book predated Stoker's and said that vampires turn into bats ie. Stroker was the first. This shatters the conclusion.

Hence D is the correct assumption based on which the conclusion is made.

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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   21 Jul 2015, 02:51
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I was able to get only D.Here are my 2 cents:

Conculsion: vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book. The myth per se "the vampires turning into bats"

In A the option talks about "the vampires being nocturnal"..

For assumptions we follow the negation test:

Negate option A: At least one book.. potrayed vampires as strictly nocturnal.

Now we see that even if we negate option A... the conclusion is still possible...ie. we can have such a book that portrayed vampires as nocturnal while still saying that vampires dint transform into bats.

Negate option D: No book predated Stoker's and said that vampires turn into bats ie. Stroker was the first. This shatters the conclusion.

Hence D is the correct assumption based on which the conclusion is made.

Regards,
Dom.


I think it is better to negate A in full-
At least one NONE of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as strictly nocturnal.

Upon complete negation, the negated statement reinforces/strengthens the conclusion and hence can not be an assumption.

I think completely negating option A makes it very clear that A can never stand as an assumption.



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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2015, 00:31
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Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who roam at night to suck the blood of living people— as able to turn into bats. As a result of the pervasive influence of this novel, many people now assume that a vampire's being able to turn into a bat is an essential part of vampire myths. However, this assumption is false, for vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book.

The author says Stoker's Dracula is responsible for the misconception that vampires must be able to turn into bats. Stoker's Dracula is contrasted with its predecessors who apparently did not include bats in their myths.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as strictly nocturnal. The characteristic of being nocturnal is out of scope.
(B) Vampire myths in Central and South America, where real vampire bats are found, portray vampires as able to turn into bats. Central and South American myths aren't relevant to this argument.
(C) Vampire myths did not exist outside Europe before the publication of Stoker's Dracula.Whether or not they existed outside of Europe doesn't affect the argument.
(D) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as able to turn into bats.The bat concept has been uniquely attributed to Stoker. If it were in many myths before his the argument that he is responsible for it loses validity.
(E) At the time he wrote Dracula, Stoker was familiar with earlier European vampire myths.His familiarity with the myths doesn't affect the argument.
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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   24 Jun 2019, 23:34
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Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who roam at night to suck the blood of living people— as able to turn into bats. As a result of the pervasive influence of this novel, many people now assume that a vampire's being able to turn into a bat is an essential part of vampire myths. However, this assumption is false, for vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?


(A) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as strictly nocturnal.

(B) Vampire myths in Central and South America, where real vampire bats are found, portray vampires as able to turn into bats.

(C) Vampire myths did not exist outside Europe before the publication of Stoker's Dracula.

(D) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as able to turn into bats.

(E) At the time he wrote Dracula, Stoker was familiar with earlier European vampire myths.


For both A and D there can be only one negation. We cannot negate twice in an answer choice. This way both A and D will cease to be among probable choices.
We will be left with only E (as the nearest possible correct choice)

Pl clarify
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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who [#permalink] New post   25 Jun 2019, 04:34
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Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires— the “undead” who roam at night to suck the blood of living people— as able to turn into bats. As a result of the pervasive influence of this novel, many people now assume that a vampire's being able to turn into a bat is an essential part of vampire myths. However, this assumption is false, for vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?


Hi,
Author says it was Stoker's book after which people started assuming that being able to turn into a vampire is an essential "part" of "vampire myths". Author says this assumption is false and vampire myths existed in Europe before Stoker's book.

1. Argument shifted from a myth to all myths that existed before Stoker's book.
2. Negating D to None of the European.....did not portray....bats does falsify author's conclusion.

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(D) At least one of the European vampire myths that predated Stoker's book did not portray vampires as able to turn into bats.


TBH I am not quite convinced with this question. An expert's view will be appreciated.
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Re: Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula portrayed vampires the undead who [#permalink] New post   19 Mar 2024, 00:24
dominicraj wrote:
Hi,

I was able to get only D.Here are my 2 cents:

Conculsion: vampire myths existed in Europe long before Stoker's book. The myth per se "the vampires turning into bats"

In A the option talks about "the vampires being nocturnal"..

For assumptions we follow the negation test:

Negate option A: At least one book.. potrayed vampires as strictly nocturnal.

Now we see that even if we negate option A... the conclusion is still possible...ie. we can have such a book that portrayed vampires as nocturnal while still saying that vampires dint transform into bats.

Negate option D: No book predated Stoker's and said that vampires turn into bats ie. Stroker was the first. This shatters the conclusion.

Hence D is the correct assumption based on which the conclusion is made.

Regards,
Dom.

­Negation test is not at all required. option A says about vampires being nocturnal which is not at all mentioned in the passage. While Option D directly attacks the conclusion of the argument that Vampires did not turn into bats according one of the myths predating the novel.
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