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Some people claim that every human discovery or invention is an instance of self-expression. But what they seem to ignore is that, trivially, anything we do is self-expressive. So, until they can give us a more interesting interpretation of their claim, we are not obliged to take their claim seriously.
Which one of the following, if true, provides the most support for the reasoning above?
(A) All claims that are trivial are uninteresting.
(B) Most people do not take trivial claims seriously.
(C) No claims that are trivial are worthy of serious consideration.
(D) Every claim is open to both interesting and uninteresting interpretations.
(E) Every interpretation is either trivial or uninteresting.
24 Apr 2020, 09:35
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(A) We want is a more interesting claim than the trivial one. We don't care whether the trivial one in and of itself is interesting or not.
(B) We don't care what most people think--we are talking about what we are obliged to do. For example, most people take a shower every day but they aren't obliged to do so.
(C) Yes, if this were true, then this would hammer home the idea that we are not obliged to take the claim seriously, because it's trivial and therefore unworthy of serious consideration.
(D) This is irrelevant to our argument.
(E) This may weaken our argument, because its saying that if it's trivial, it may not be uninteresting, and therefore it doesn't need to be made more interesting.
(c) is the right answer
(B) We don't care what most people think--we are talking about what we are obliged to do. For example, most people take a shower every day but they aren't obliged to do so.
(C) Yes, if this were true, then this would hammer home the idea that we are not obliged to take the claim seriously, because it's trivial and therefore unworthy of serious consideration.
(D) This is irrelevant to our argument.
(E) This may weaken our argument, because its saying that if it's trivial, it may not be uninteresting, and therefore it doesn't need to be made more interesting.
(c) is the right answer
26 Apr 2020, 17:28
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=some say that discovery is self
=but, anything we do, trivially, is self
=thus, we are not obliged to take this claim seriously
=until we are given a more interpretation of such claim
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ans (C) if trivial claims were worthy of serious consideration, then the argument falls, because we WOULD be obliged to take it seriously.
