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04 Feb 2020, 17:33
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Archaeologists working in the Andes Mountains recently excavated a buried 4,000-year-old temple containing structures that align with a stone carving on a distant hill to indicate the direction of the rising sun at the summer solstice. Alignments in the temple were also found to point toward the position, at the summer solstice, of a constellation known in Andean culture as the Fox. Since the local mythology represents the fox as teaching people how to cultivate and irrigate plants, the ancient Andeans may have built the temple as a religious representation of the fox.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument is based?
(A) The constellation known as the Fox has the same position at the summer solstice as it did 4,000 years ago.
(B) In the region around the temple, the summer solstice marks the time for planting.
(C) The temple was protected from looters by dirt and debris built up over thousands of years.
(D) Other structural alignments at the temple point to further constellations with agricultural significance.
(E) The site containing the temple was occupied for a significant amount of time before abandonment.
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Conclusion : Andeans may have built the temple as a religious representation of the fox.
Premise : Structures (within the Temple) align with the position of the fox constellation during the summer solstice
I thought C had to be true
If the place was looted -- its quite possible that OTHER structures pointing to OTHER constellations (other than the 'FOX' constellation) were also present at this temple before being looted
Thereby destroying the argument (which said -- this temple is for reprenseting the "Fox" constellation only)
Thoughts ?
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument is based?
(A) The constellation known as the Fox has the same position at the summer solstice as it did 4,000 years ago.
(B) In the region around the temple, the summer solstice marks the time for planting.
(C) The temple was protected from looters by dirt and debris built up over thousands of years.
(D) Other structural alignments at the temple point to further constellations with agricultural significance.
(E) The site containing the temple was occupied for a significant amount of time before abandonment.
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Conclusion : Andeans may have built the temple as a religious representation of the fox.
Premise : Structures (within the Temple) align with the position of the fox constellation during the summer solstice
I thought C had to be true
If the place was looted -- its quite possible that OTHER structures pointing to OTHER constellations (other than the 'FOX' constellation) were also present at this temple before being looted
Thereby destroying the argument (which said -- this temple is for reprenseting the "Fox" constellation only)
Thoughts ?
04 Feb 2020, 21:02
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04 Feb 2020, 22:51
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