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22 Jan 2020, 03:44
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Historian: There is no direct evidence that timber was traded between the ancient nations of Poran and Nayal, but the fact that a law setting tariffs on timber imports from Poran was enacted during the third Nayalese dynasty does suggest that during that period a timber trade was conducted.
Critic: Your reasoning is flawed. During its third dynasty, Nayal may well have imported timber from Poran, but certainly on today’s statute books there remain many laws regulating activities that were once common but in which people no longer engage.
The critic’s response to the historian’s reasoning does which one of the following?
(A) It implies an analogy between the present and the past.
(B) It identifies a general principle that the historian’s reasoning violates.
(C) It distinguishes between what has been established as a certainty and what has been established as a possibility.
(D) It establishes explicit criteria that must be used in evaluating indirect evidence.
(E) It points out the dissimilar roles that law plays in societies that are distinct from one another.
Critic: Your reasoning is flawed. During its third dynasty, Nayal may well have imported timber from Poran, but certainly on today’s statute books there remain many laws regulating activities that were once common but in which people no longer engage.
The critic’s response to the historian’s reasoning does which one of the following?
(A) It implies an analogy between the present and the past.
(B) It identifies a general principle that the historian’s reasoning violates.
(C) It distinguishes between what has been established as a certainty and what has been established as a possibility.
(D) It establishes explicit criteria that must be used in evaluating indirect evidence.
(E) It points out the dissimilar roles that law plays in societies that are distinct from one another.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(A) Yes. The clause “certainly on today’s statute books there remain many laws regulating activities that were once common but in which people no longer engage” is drawing an analogy between what is common today and what the critic believes was common in the past.
(B) No. There is no principle stated.
(C) No. Both the historian and the critic consider the tariff law as fact and see the existence of timber trade between Poral and Nayal as only a possibility. Therefore, the critic cannot respond to the historian by pointing out the difference between direct evidence giving certain information and indirect evidence providing only probabilities.
(D) No. There are no criteria mentioned.
(E) No. In fact, the critic is presuming just the opposite: that the role laws played in Nayalese society was similar to their role in contemporary society.
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22 Jan 2020, 07:28
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Ans: D
It establishes explicit criteria that must be used in evaluating indirect evidence
It's giving a criteria that must be considered.
It establishes explicit criteria that must be used in evaluating indirect evidence
It's giving a criteria that must be considered.
