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Joshua Smith’s new novel was criticized by the book editor for The Daily Standard as implausible. That criticism, like so many other criticisms from the same source in the past, is completely unwarranted, as anyone who has actually read the novel would agree. Each one of the incidents in which Smith’s hero gets involved is the kind of incident that could very well have happened to someone or other.
Which one of the following is the most serious error of reasoning in the argument?
(A) It relies on the assumption that a criticism can legitimately by dismissed as unwarranted if it is offended by someone who had previously displayed questionable judgment.
(B) It ignores the fact that people can agree about something even though what they agree about is not the case.
(C) It calls into question the intellectual integrity of the critic in order to avoid having to address the grounds on which the criticism is based.
(D) It takes for granted that a whole story will have a given characteristics if each of its parts has that characteristics.
(E) It attempts to justify its conclusion by citing reasons that most people would find plausible only if they were already convinced that the conclusion was true.
Which one of the following is the most serious error of reasoning in the argument?
(A) It relies on the assumption that a criticism can legitimately by dismissed as unwarranted if it is offended by someone who had previously displayed questionable judgment.
(B) It ignores the fact that people can agree about something even though what they agree about is not the case.
(C) It calls into question the intellectual integrity of the critic in order to avoid having to address the grounds on which the criticism is based.
(D) It takes for granted that a whole story will have a given characteristics if each of its parts has that characteristics.
(E) It attempts to justify its conclusion by citing reasons that most people would find plausible only if they were already convinced that the conclusion was true.
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Here is my explanation why I chose option D:
JS novel was criticized for being implausible by a Book Editor. Novel readers and the writer of argument would agree that the criticism is unwarranted because "each incident in novel is plausible"
Pre-thinking: Each part of a novel may be plausible but entire novel may be implausible.
Pre-thinking points to option D.
A : offended can't be inferred
B : seems vague
C : intellectual integrity not questioned
E : conclusion of novel not discussed
D : inline with pre-thinking
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JS novel was criticized for being implausible by a Book Editor. Novel readers and the writer of argument would agree that the criticism is unwarranted because "each incident in novel is plausible"
Pre-thinking: Each part of a novel may be plausible but entire novel may be implausible.
Pre-thinking points to option D.
A : offended can't be inferred
B : seems vague
C : intellectual integrity not questioned
E : conclusion of novel not discussed
D : inline with pre-thinking
Would love kudos (have none of them as of now
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Joshua Smith’s new novel was criticized by the book editor for The Daily Standard as implausible. That criticism, like so many other criticisms from the same source in the past, is completely unwarranted, as anyone who has actually read the novel would agree. Each one of the incidents in which Smith’s hero gets involved is the kind of incident that could very well have happened to someone or other.
Which one of the following is the most serious error of reasoning in the argument?
(A) It relies on the assumption that a criticism can legitimately by dismissed as unwarranted if it is offended by someone who had previously displayed questionable judgment.
(B) It ignores the fact that people can agree about something even though what they agree about is not the case.
(C) It calls into question the intellectual integrity of the critic in order to avoid having to address the grounds on which the criticism is based.
(D) It takes for granted that a whole story will have a given characteristics if each of its parts has that characteristics.
(E) It attempts to justify its conclusion by citing reasons that most people would find plausible only if they were already convinced that the conclusion was true.
Which one of the following is the most serious error of reasoning in the argument?
(A) It relies on the assumption that a criticism can legitimately by dismissed as unwarranted if it is offended by someone who had previously displayed questionable judgment.
(B) It ignores the fact that people can agree about something even though what they agree about is not the case.
(C) It calls into question the intellectual integrity of the critic in order to avoid having to address the grounds on which the criticism is based.
(D) It takes for granted that a whole story will have a given characteristics if each of its parts has that characteristics.
(E) It attempts to justify its conclusion by citing reasons that most people would find plausible only if they were already convinced that the conclusion was true.
Premise: Each one of the incidents in which Smith’s hero gets involved is the kind of incident that could very well have happened to someone or other
Conclusion: That criticism (new novel = implausible) is completely unwarranted.
The gap in this argument is that the author is assuming that the incidents in which Smith’s hero is involved are the only factors that could decide the plausibility of the novel. What if the story of the novel is unreasonable? What if the incidents in which other characters of the novel are involved in are implausible? Option D calls this very assumption into the question.
