PT144.S2.Q21

PrepTest 144 - Section 2 - Question 21

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Although the first humans came to Australia 56,000 years ago and undoubtedly brought new diseases with them, Conclusion human-borne diseases probably did not cause the mass extinction of large land animals and birds that took place over the following 10,000 years. █████ ████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ███████ ███████████ ██ █████ ███ ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ █████████ █████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ██████ ████ ████ █████████ ████████

Method of Reasoning

The argument starts by describing a scenario (humans going to Australia and bringing diseases), moves to a conclusion (human-borne diseases likely didn’t cause the extinction of large land animals and birds), and provides a premise to support the conclusion (more than 55 species disappeared and no one disease could be fatal to animals across that many species).

Identify and Describe Flaw

This argument commits a flaw of erroneously moving from singularity to plurality. The premise of the argument simply states that no individual disease (singular) could be fatal to animals across all 55 of the species that disappeared, and then the argument concludes that human-borne diseases (plural) likely didn’t cause the extinction of the 55 species. Although a single disease may not have been able to kill all of the animals, it’s possible that a large array of human-borne diseases could’ve killed the animals.

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21.

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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

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