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Advertisement: Anyone who thinks moisturizers are not important for beautiful skin should consider what happens to the earth, the skin of the word, in times of drought. Without regular infusions of moisture the ground becomes lined and cracked and its lush loveliness fades away. Thus your skin, too, should be protected from the protection provided by regular infusions of Dewyfresh the drought-defying moisturizer.

The Dewyfresh advertisement exhibits which one of the following errors of reasoning?


(A) It treats something that is necessary for bringing about a state of affairs as something that is sufficient to bring about that state of affairs.

(B) It treats the fact that two things regularly occur together as proof that there is a single thing that is the cause of them both.

(C) It overlooks the fact that changing what people think is the case does not necessarily change what is the case.

(D) It relies on the ambiguity of the term “infusion.” which can designate either a process or the product of that process.

(E) It relies on an analogy between two things that are insufficiently alike in the respects in which they would have to be alike for the conclusion to be
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iMO, its E. Because there is a vast difference between the skin skinand the earth. The earth not having water cant be compared to the skin not getting water and the moisturizer being a way for that moisture to be given to the skin

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Can u please explain that why ans is not b and why it is e?
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Can u please explain that why ans is not b and why it is e?
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Let's first consider (B).

(B) It treats the fact that two things regularly occur together as proof that there is a single thing that is the cause of them both.

The end of (B), "there is a single thing that is the cause of them both" fits what the passage says.

However, the beginning of choice (B) does not accurately describe what the advertisement does. After all the passage does not say that "two things," drought on Earth and dry skin, "regularly occur together."

Now, let's consider (E).

(E) It relies on an analogy between two things that are insufficiently alike in the respects in which they would have to be alike for the conclusion to be (supported).

This choice describes exactly what the passage does. It supports its point using an analogy between the surface of the Earth and beautiful skin, which are two quite different things. After all, among other differences is the fact that the surface of the Earth depends on rainfall as its main source of moisture whereas skin gets moisture from within the body.

So, the correct answer is (E).
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Advertisement: Anyone who thinks moisturizers are not important for beautiful skin should consider what happens to the earth, the skin of the word, in times of drought. Without regular infusions of moisture the ground becomes lined and cracked and its lush loveliness fades away. Thus your skin, too, should be protected from the protection provided by regular infusions of Dewyfresh the drought-defying moisturizer.

The Dewyfresh advertisement exhibits which one of the following errors of reasoning?

(A) It treats something that is necessary for bringing about a state of affairs as something that is sufficient to bring about that state of affairs. - WRONG. It might be true but the problem is something else. The analogy is wrong.

(B) It treats the fact that two things regularly occur together as proof that there is a single thing that is the cause of them both. - WRONG. Totally wrong.

(C) It overlooks the fact that changing what people think is the case does not necessarily change what is the case. - WRONG. Plain wrong. Irrelevant.

(D) It relies on the ambiguity of the term “infusion.” which can designate either a process or the product of that process. - WRONG. Plain wrong. Irrelevant.

(E) It relies on an analogy between two things that are insufficiently alike in the respects in which they would have to be alike for the conclusion to be - CORRECT. Banana is not equal to apple. May be a bad analogy from me but that's how it is.

Funny analogy even it had been with a good reasoning, though it's not.

Answer E.
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