22. The true scientific significance of a group of unusual fossils discovered by the paleontologist Charles Walcott is more likely to be reflected in a recent classification than it was in Walcott's own classification, Walcott was, after all, a prominent member of the scientific establishment. His classifications are thus unlikely to have done anything but confirm what established science had already taken to be true.
Which one of the following most accurately describes a questionable technique used in the argument?
(A) It draws conclusions about the merit of a position and about the content of that position from evidence about the position's source. (B) It cites two prices of evidence, each of which is both questionable and unverifiable, and uses this evidence to support its conclusions. (C) It bases a conclusion on two premises that contradict each other and minimizes this contradiction by the vagueness of the terms employed. (D) It attempts to establish the validity of a claim, which is otherwise unsupported, by denying the truth of the opposite of that claim. (E) It analyzes the past on the basis of social and political categories that properly apply only to the present and uses the results of this analysis to support its conclusion. --------------------------------------------------- 答案A, 为何选A?请大家指教.
The title article concludes that Charles Walcott would definitely use the finding to support his own theory rather than develop a possible different theory, and thus the significance of the finding would be undermined. Based on ungrounded personal emotion, the argment is totally flawed.The answer A expresses this opinion.
被古生物学家Charles Walcott 发现的一组特殊化石的真正科学意义能更好的被最新的分类反映而不是被他自己的分类,毕竟Charles Walcott 只是一个科学机构的杰出成员,因此它的分类除了能证实现存科学的真实性,没有其他作用. 那个最能描述在论断中使用的问题方法? Walcott was, after all, a prominent member of the scientific establishment. 是作者用于支持自己观点的evidence.
我对A中的from evidence about the position's source不很明白。
nobody 发表于 2003-4-3 23:30
22. The true scientific significance of a group of unusual fossils discovered by the paleontologist ...
Spot the question type: method of the reasoning - Weaken
Core of the argument
Conclusion: the true scientific significance of a group of. unusual fossils discovered by the paleontologist is more likely to be reflected in a recent classification that it was in W's own classification
Why ? because of his position.
A. It draws the conclusion of " the true scientific significance of a group of. unusual fossils discovered by the paleontologist is more likely to be reflected in a recent classification that it was in W's own classification " about the merits of being a prominent member of the scientific establishment and about the content, His classification is unlikely to offer anything new but to confirm what must be known to be true, of his position as prominent member of the scientific establishment from evidence about the fossil as the sources of that evidence the position offered.
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