请教一题逻辑题

christyding

16. The familiar slogan "survival of the fittest" is popularly used to express the claim, often mistakenly attributed to evolutionary biologists, that the fittest are most likely to survive. However, biologists use the term "fittest " to mean "most likely to survive are the most likely to survive. While this claim is clearly true, it is a tautology and so is neither informative nor of scientific interest.

The argument above depends on assuming which one of the following? (A) All claims that are of scientific interest are informative.

(B) Only claims that are true are of scientific interest.

(C) Popular slogans are seldom informative or of scientific interest.

(D) Informative scientific claims cannot use terms in the way they are popularly used.

(E) The truth of a purported scientific claim is not sufficient for it to be of scientific interest.

看不明白题目中最后一句与前文的逻辑关系，只是用排除法得到答案e

，请问题目的逻辑关系和答案如何成为假设

rockytundra

以下是引用christyding在2007-8-24 17:24:00的发言：

16. The familiar slogan "survival of the fittest" is popularly used to express the claim, often mistakenly attributed to evolutionary biologists, that the fittest are most likely to survive. However, biologists use the term "fittest " to mean "most likely to survive are the most likely to survive. While this claim is clearly true, it is a tautology and so is neither informative nor of scientific interest.

The argument above depends on assuming which one of the following? (A) All claims that are of scientific interest are informative.

(B) Only claims that are true are of scientific interest.

(C) Popular slogans are seldom informative or of scientific interest.

(D) Informative scientific claims cannot use terms in the way they are popularly used.

(E) The truth of a purported scientific claim is not sufficient for it to be of scientific interest.

看不明白题目中最后一句与前文的逻辑关系，只是用排除法得到答案e

，请问题目的逻辑关系和答案如何成为假设

You can find the corresponding parts in option E vs the last sentence of the argument: The truth of a purported scientific claim /While this claim is clearly true, is not sufficient for it to be of scientific interest/it is (a tautology and so is neither informative) nor of scientific interest.