PT102.S2.Q20

PrepTest 102 - Section 2 - Question 20

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Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

The physicist concludes that determinism (the view that every event is guaranteed by the state of the universe immediately before) is false. This is supported by the fact that it’s impossible to know the entire state of the universe at any given time. In turn, that claim is supported by the impossibility of measuring both the position and the velocity of subatomic particles at the same time.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The flaw in this argument is that the physicist mixes up the factual state of the universe with human knowledge about the state of the universe. Just because we can’t know everything about the universe at any given time, that doesn’t disprove the idea that there can be a complete and determined state of the universe.

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20.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

That the position ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███ ████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████████

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