PT117.S2.Q22

PrepTest 117 - Section 2 - Question 22

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Method of Reasoning

The available evidence supports both Dr. Grippen’s theory and Professor Heissmann’s but the predictions of each of their theories about the result of the planned experiment can’t both be true, so the experiment will confirm one of the theories but not the other.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is a cookie-cutter “false dichotomy” flaw. While it may be true that the predictions of each theory can’t be proven true by the experiment, it’s not necessarily true that one of the theories will be proven correct by the experiment.

The false dichotomy that the author puts forth is that one theory will absolutely be proven true by the experiment while the other will absolutely be proven false. However, it’s entirely possible that neither theory will be proven true.

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22.

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a

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b

Although David thinks ███ ████ ████ ███ ███ █ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ██ ████ ██████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ████ ███████████ ████ ██ ████████████ ████ ███████ █████

c

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d

David thinks that █████ ███ ████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████ ███ ███████████ ██ ███ █████ ██████ █████ ██████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ ███

e

David thinks this ████ ██ █ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ █████ ██ █████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ███████████████ ██ ████ █████ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ███████ ██ ██████ ████████

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