Self-study
Support Everything that is commonplace and ordinary fails to catch our attention, so Conclusion there are things that fail to catch our attention but that are miracles of nature.
Summary
Some miracles of nature fail to catch our attention. Why? Because everything that’s commonplace and ordinary fails to catch our attention.
Missing Connection
The conclusion is about miracles of nature, but the premise says nothing about miracles of nature. How to get from the premise to the conclusion? The premise tells us that all things that are commonplace and ordinary fail to catch our attention. We can make the argument valid if we assume that some things that are miracles of nature are commonplace and ordinary.
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a
Only miracles of ██████ ████ ██ ██ ████████ ███ ████████████
Knowing that miracles of nature aren’t ordinary and commonplace doesn’t validate the author’s conclusion. We need an answer choice that says some miracles of nature are ordinary and commonplace.
b
Some things that ███ ████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████
We know all things that are ordinary and commonplace fail to catch our attention, so if some things that are ordinary and commonplace are miracles of nature, then some miracles of nature fail to catch our attention. The argument’s conclusion follows logically if (B) is assumed.
c
Some things that ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ██████████
The author says that all things that are commonplace and ordinary fail to catch our attention, so (C) is redundant because it’s implied in the argument’s premise.
d
Everything that fails ██ █████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████████ ███ █████████
This says nothing about miracles of nature, so it can’t be right. The conclusion is about miracles of nature, yet the argument’s premise never discusses miracles of nature. The correct answer choice must bridge this gap.
e
Only extraordinary or ███████ ██████ █████ ███ ██████████
This says nothing about miracles of nature, so it can’t be right. The conclusion is about miracles of nature, yet the argument’s premise never discusses miracles of nature. The correct answer choice must bridge this gap.