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PT104.S3.P2.Q11
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mdiloren917
Friday, Jul 31 2015

Could someone please give me a hand with #11?

From my understanding of the passage, the second paragraph supports the idea that "names often refer to historical or ritual events," while the third paragraph supports the idea that "images used to evoke these events…can be seen as a type of poetic composition." So unless my understanding of the passage structure is off, why wouldn't B be the correct answer choice for #11?

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PT113.S2.Q3
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mdiloren917
Sunday, May 31 2015

I understand why B is correct but I'm having trouble understanding why D is incorrect, because isn't D just saying that the argument's reasoning failed to correctly run the contrapositive? In other words, it ignores the fact that the correct contrapositive is /Pass → /A?

Can anyone explain where I'm going wrong?

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PT118.S3.Q17
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mdiloren917
Friday, May 29 2015

The passage says that the antidote limits the severity of chicken pox, so wouldn't E contradict this by saying that it contributes to the development of deadlier forms of chicken pox? Or is the distinction that a form of chicken pox is different from chicken pox?

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PT107.S4.Q24
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mdiloren917
Thursday, May 21 2015

What helped me answer this question correctly was reminding myself not to attack the premises directly. My thought process was, "Ok, I accept that records indicate that premature babies were more likely to have low birth weights and to suffer from health problems, and I accept that these records also indicate that mothers who had adequate prenatal care were less likely to have low birth weight babies. But if I need to weaken the argument, and I can't deny the existence of these records, then there must be something else going on here."

This led me to B. Yeah, mother's who gave birth prematurely are recorded as having received inadequate prenatal care…but where are the actual records of that care? That's the "something else going on" I was looking for.

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PT114.S2.Q11
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mdiloren917
Monday, Jul 06 2015

Shouldn't (E) state that "Displaying intelligence requires the capacity to have emotions" ?

Displaying intelligence and being intelligent are not the same thing…

On that note, wouldn't (A) be correct if it read, "A computer could display intelligence only if it could have emotions" ?

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PT123.S2.Q8
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mdiloren917
Saturday, Jun 06 2015

With E, I think it's also helpful to point out the use of the word "considerable." Is considerable environmental damage enough to produce no net reduction in environmental degradation? We don't know.

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