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Once at a conference on the philosophy of language, a professor delivered a lengthy and tiresome address the central thesis of which was that “yes” and related slang words such as “yeah” can be used only to show agreement with a proposition. At the end of the paper, a listener in the back of the auditorium stood up and shouted in a sarcastic voice, “Oh, yeah?” This constituted a complete refutation of the paper.

The listener argued against the paper by

(A) offering a counter-example

(B) pointing out an inconsistency

(C) presenting an analogy

(D) attacking the speaker’s character

(E) citing additional evidence

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Once at a conference on the philosophy of language, a professor delivered a lengthy and tiresome address the central thesis of which was that “yes” and related slang words such as “yeah” can be used only to show agreement with a proposition. At the end of the paper, a listener in the back of the auditorium stood up and shouted in a sarcastic voice, “Oh, yeah?” This constituted a complete refutation of the paper.

The listener argued against the paper by

(A) offering a counter-example
(B) pointing out an inconsistency
(C) presenting an analogy
(D) attacking the speaker’s character
(E) citing additional evidence
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The listener showed that "yeah" could be used in many purposes. Hence, the answer should be A, offering a counter-example to undermine the paper.

This type of logic won't appear in GMAT.
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Once at a conference on the philosophy of language, a professor delivered a lengthy and tiresome address the central thesis of which was that “yes” and related slang words such as “yeah” can be used only to show agreement with a proposition. At the end of the paper, a listener in the back of the auditorium stood up and shouted in a sarcastic voice, “Oh, yeah?” This constituted a complete refutation of the paper.

The listener argued against the paper by

(A) offering a counter-example
(B) pointing out an inconsistency
(C) presenting an analogy
(D) attacking the speaker’s character
(E) citing additional evidence
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Is option B incorrect? Or is it just inferior to A?
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Follow the advice of the previous post.

This is not a gmat-like question. Do not waste your time .

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Once at a conference on the philosophy of language, a professor delivered a lengthy and tiresome address the central thesis of which was that “yes” and related slang words such as “yeah” can be used only to show agreement with a proposition. At the end of the paper, a listener in the back of the auditorium stood up and shouted in a sarcastic voice, “Oh, yeah?” This constituted a complete refutation of the paper.

The listener argued against the paper by

(A) offering a counter-example
(B) pointing out an inconsistency
(C) presenting an analogy
(D) attacking the speaker’s character
(E) citing additional evidence
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Speaker : Spoke at length about "yes" and the slangs associated with it (Eg - Yeah)
Listner : Exclaimed Oh Yeah ( In a sarcastic voice)
Author : This refutes the Argument presented by the speaker.

Among the given options using negation only (A) remains, further as broall has pointed out " Yeah " could mean many things ( It can express excitement, happiness), thus me too with (A) and of the same opinion seems, unlike GMAT CR Question.
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Could be also derision..........
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