The teacher of yoga said that he knows how good the yoga exercises fee

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The teacher of yoga said that he knows how good the yoga exercises feel and how beneficial they are to his mental and spiritual health. After all, he said, there must be something sound to any human practice that endures more than three thousand years of history.

Which of the following, if true, is the strongest relevant objection to the argument the teacher makes on the basis of the time yoga has endured?

(A) The teacher benefits by the teaching of yoga and so, as a beneficiary, is not a disinterested witness.
(B) The practice of yoga has changed somewhat over three thousand years.
(C) The teacher cites the experience of only one person, whose well-being might be due to other causes.
(D) War, which cannot on balance be called sound, has lasted the length of human history.
(E) Three thousand years is an underestimate of the time period.

milanrajb · Answer

I think its D

Please feel free to counter my answer. Would be happy incorporate more views.

Chose D: There is unstated assumption that everything that last 3 thousand years is good. Option D contradicts it, and hence the answer

PriyamRathor · Answer

So the conclusion by teacher " Why YOGA is good " has been made on just one aspect :-
Since Yoga has been practiced for more than 3000 thousand years hence it should be Good and beneficial.

To object this argument we need to show that " it is not necessary for something to be good and beneficial if it is being practiced for thousand of years ".

Choice D provides us with such an argument.

Took me 1 min 42 sec.

Thanks.
Feedback Appreciated.

ThatDudeKnows · Answer

Question type is WEAKEN based on "strongest relevant objection."

Conclusion: Yoga feels good to the teacher and is beneficial to his health.
Premise: Yoga has been around for 3000 years, and long-standing practices must be sound.

A) Might be cause for us to be skeptical that he isn't going to present a counterargument, but it doesn't actually present an objection. Incorrect.
B) "Somewhat" is not strong enough to weaken the argument. Of course it has changed "somewhat." Incorrect.
C) The question stem asks us to weaken the argument on the basis of the premise cited above, not on the basis of the sample size. Incorrect.
D) War is presented as an example of something that violates the teacher's premise. Without the premise, his argument falls apart.  Correct. 
E) If yoga has been around longer than 3000 years, that does nothing to break the premise (if the answer choice said yoga hadn't been around anywhere near as long as 3000 years, it could work to weaken the argument). Incorrect.

c3tangerines · Answer

Was briefly debating between B and D. B can definitely be out because of its use of “somewhat” as stated by someone else. I also realized that we also can’t use B as a good objection even if it omitted “somewhat” as “change” itself could also be a part of yoga and that’s why it has endured.

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