PT22.S4.Q16 - familiar slogan of scientific interest

yeshesvini

https://7sage.com/lesson/necessary-assumptions-questions-problem-set-10/?ss_completed_lesson=13888

Answer choice c and d are being problematic. I can reason through c but d is just blocking the doorway and am unable to peer through.

Anyone to the rescue??

Thanks heaps!

CrispyCritter

The argument is that the slogan presented is not informative or scientifically useful b/c it is a tautology. We can negate (D) and the argument still holds. As long as the scientific claim in question is not a tautology, it very well could use terms the same way they are used by the public and still be informative.

yeshesvini

i reasoned the irrelevance of d eventually, but there is a subtle nuance there which might be good to pay heed to....the reference is to the popular use of the term 'fittest' vis a vie the biologist's interpretation of the term leading to the tautology....here the author uses the biologist version --> tautology ---> non informative and scientifically irrelevant....

doesn't necessarily lead us to say scientifically informative claims can not use terms the way they are used by the public just because not done so in this particular instance....

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