PT142.S2.Q24

PrepTest 142 - Section 2 - Question 24

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Historian: Support It is unlikely that someone would see history as the working out of moral themes unless he or she held clear and unambiguous moral beliefs. ████████ █████ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████ ████████ █████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████████████ ███ ████ ███████ █ ██████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ███████

Summary

The author concludes that the more history a person knows, the less likely that person will view history as the working out of moral themes. This is based on the following:

If one does not hold clear and unambiguous moral beliefs, then it’s unlikely one will see history as the working out of moral themes.

As one gains knowledge of history, one will tend to be less likely to morally judge human behaavior.

Missing Connection

We’re trying to get from “more history a person knows” to “less likely to see history as working out of moral themes.”

We have a premise that tells us “more history a person knows” leads to “less inclined to morally judge human behavior.” And we have a premise that tells us “not holding clear and unambiguous moral beliefs” leads to “less likely to see history as working out of moral themes.” So there’s a way to get from “more history a person knows” to “less likely to see history as working out of moral themes,” as long as we add the following to connect the two premises:

“less inclined to morally judge human behavior” implies “less likely to hold clear and unambiguous moral beliefs”

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24.

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a

Historical events that ████ ██ ██████ █████ ███████████ ███ █████████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████ █ █████ ██████

b

The less inclined ███ ██ ██ ███████ █████ █████ █████████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ████ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███████████ █████ ████████

c

Only those who ██ ███ ██████████ █████ ███████ █████████ █████ ████████████ ██ ██████████ ███████

d

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e

People tend to ██ ████ █████████ █████████ █ ███████ █████ █████ ████ ███████ █████████ █████████ ████ █████████ █ ███████ █████ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ █████████ ██████████

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