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A geologist recently claimed to have discovered in clay a previously unknown form of life: "nanobes," one-tenth the size of the smallest known bacteria. ████████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ███████ █████ ███ ██████ ███████ ████ ███ ████████ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████████ ██████████ ███████ █ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████ █ ████████████ ██████████ █ ████████████ ███ █████
Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author hypothesizes that nanobes, a supposedly living organism found in clay, are actually nonliving inanimate artifacts of this clay’s structure. This is because a nanobe is too small to have a reproductive mechanism, which is required to be classified as a living thing.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that nanobes are too small to contain any form of reproductive mechanism.
The author also assumes that the clay can produce non-living artifacts like nanodes
Analysis by Spaulding.Bingaman
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