CD历史遗留问题，逻辑大虾请进 (之三)

vrylwj

9.我的问题是：最后一句话是不是有问题？therefore, since this practice avoids the more serious misrepresentation that would occur if people's exact words were quoted but their defensible. their 指代谁？结论是什么？帮翻译一下吧。

我认为their 可能有点问题

vrylwj

请教lsat-6-iii-13,17,23
arguing that there was no trade between europe and east asia in the early middle ages because there are no written records of such trade is like arguing that the yeti, an apelike creature supposedly existing in the himalayas, does not exist because there have been no scientifically confirmed sightings. a verifiable sighting of the yeti would prove that the creature does exist, but the absence of sightings cannot prove that it does not.

d) there have been no confirmed sightings of the yeti, but there is indirect evidence, such as footprints, which if it is accepted as authentic would establish the yeti's existence.

(e) there are surviving european and east asian written records from the early middle ages that do not mention trade between the two regions but would have been very likely to do so if this trade had existed.

我的问题是：how about 答案 d? d不也指出不同吗？

请看划线部分。从题目来看e比d好。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-7 11:21:37编辑过]

vrylwj

(a) people who have birthdays or other anniversaries on december 30 or 31
我的问题是：a 不是更矛盾？ 新的方法根本就没了最后一天--dec.31 ?

dec. 31 照样存在，只不过不叫做星期一或星期日。不影响过啊。

vrylwj

(a) the results of the analysis are interpreted as indicating that the use of titanium as an ingredient in fifteenth-century ink both was, and was not, extremely restricted

这句话的意思是说：新的发现在十五世纪的应用太有局限性了。这是这个argument的 flaw. 因为结论说：the presence of titanium in the ink of the purportedly fifteenth century vinland map can no longer be regarded as a reason for doubting the map’s authenticity. 仅仅因为使用当时并不普遍的titanium就可证明一个map也是十五世纪的是不对的。

vrylwj

我想这句话是evidence吧。结论是暗含的。就是不同意decried as a form of unfair。

vrylwj

a. 指出了它的矛盾的地方。一开始证明Ti的使用是有局限性的。后来的结论，证明用Ti是普遍性的。这样a比C更明确。