PT127.S1.Q15

PrepTest 127 - Section 1 - Question 15

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Summary

The argument concludes that experimental results warrant the acceptance of quantum theory, despite its counterintuitive consequences. That’s because these experiments rigorously attempted to disprove quantum theory, but still found that quantum theory made accurate predictions.

Notable Assumptions

The argument describes the experimental results, but never actually says why that means we should accept quantum theory. In other words, the argument is assuming that something about the results warrants the acceptance of quantum theory.

To justify that reasoning, we need to find a principle which affirms the argument’s assumption. The principle should establish that if a theory undergoes rigorous attempts to disprove it, and is still found to make accurate predictions, then that’s sufficient to accept the theory.

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15.

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a

A scientific theory ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ██ ███ █████ ████████████████ ████████████ ████ ██ ███ ████████████

b

A scientific theory ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ██ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███ █████████ ███ ██ █████

c

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d

A theory should ███ ██ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███

e

A theory should ██ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ███████████ ████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███████████

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