Self-study
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Summarize Argument
The author concludes people who say every discovery or invention is a form of self-expression shouldn’t be taken seriously unless they make their interpretation more interesting. Why not? Because everything a person does is somewhat self-expressive.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes people who say all discovery and invention is self-expression allow everything to count as self-expression. In addition, he assumes a claim about self-expression should only be taken seriously if it means denying that some things are self-expressive.
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Which one of the following, ██ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ███████ ███ ███ █████████ ██████
a
All claims that ███ ███████ ███ ██████████████
This doesn’t affect the argument. It implies the claim about self-expression is both trivial and uninteresting, but does nothing to establish that a trivial, uninteresting claim shouldn’t be taken seriously.
b
Most people do ███ ████ ███████ ██████ ██████████
This is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how many people do take the claim seriously—only whether people should take it seriously.
c
No claims that ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████████████
This makes concrete a key assumption: that a claim about self-expression shouldn’t be taken seriously if it allows everything to be self-expressive and is therefore trivial.
d
Every claim is ████ ██ ████ ███████████ ███ █████████████ ████████████████
This doesn’t support the assertion that a more interesting interpretation is required. The author may consider the interpretation provided interesting, but not interesting enough.
e
Every interpretation is ██████ ███████ ██ ██████████████
If anything, this weakens the argument. It suggests the author asks the impossible by demanding those who claim discovery and invention are instances of self-expression craft an interpretation that is both not trivial and more interesting.