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The amygdala is a part of the brain that helps us experience fear. A disease called Urbach-Wiethe disease destroys the amygdala, and people with that disease don’t usually experience fear. However, some people, including people with the disease, experience fear when they breath in a lot of carbon dioxide.

The stimulus supports these inferences:

The amygdala is not necessary for every experience of fear.

Thus, there must be other parts of the brain that can also sense fear.

In particular, the amygdala is not necessary to experience fear caused by breathing in carbon dioxide.

This is not supported. All we know about people’s response to taking a breath high in carbon dioxide is that it can cause extreme fear. Maybe it can cause other responses too, but we don’t know that.

This is not supported. The stimulus just tells us that the amygdala is involved in sensing fear. We have no information about whether or not it does anything else.

This is not supported. Just because Urbach-Wiethe disease destroys the amygdala, that doesn’t imply that it’s the only disease which destroys the amygdala. To say so, we would need further information (which we don’t have).

This is not supported. We don’t know anything about Urbach-Wiethe disease except that it affects the amygdala. It’s possible that it affects other brain areas too, and equally possible that it doesn’t. We just don’t know.

This is strongly supported. When people with Urbach-Wiethe disease experience fear from breathing carbon dioxide, their amygdala can’t be responsible, because it’s been destroyed. That must mean some other part of the brain senses that particular fear.

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