LSAT-16-1-17 请教：这个问法的含义。

siebel

答案D中的“in a matter that is largely factual”怎样理解？是“大部分事实的意见么？”谢谢！

17. Most people believe that yawning is most powerfully triggered by seeing someone else yawn. This belief about yawning is widespread not only today, but also has been commonplace in many parts of the world in the past, if we are to believe historians of popular culture. Thus, seeing someone else yawn must be the most irresistible cause of yawning.

The argument is most vulnerable to which one of the following criticisms?

(A) It attempts to support its conclusion solely by restating that conclusion in other words.
(B) It cites the evidence of historians of popular culture in direct support of a claim that lies outside their area of expertise.
(C) It makes a sweeping generalization about yawning based on evidence drawn from a limited number of atypical cases.
(D) It supports its conclusion by appealing solely to opinion in a matter that is largely factual.
(E) It takes for granted that yawns have no cause other than the one it cites.

albert

opinion in a matter that is largely factual.

我的理解是： 对于大部分是事实的某种现象的看法。。。

不知看法。。请大家讨论。

mike1999

英文的factual和中文的事实恐怕有一些微妙的差别。我也说不出。根据这道题来理解，是不是说我们不能以事论事。

cranberry

我的理解是“对一个本来应该是事实的问题而完全诉诸于想法”

mindfree

我的理解:
factual是concerned with or full of facts的意思. 可以理解为和事实有关的或真实的. 题目中提出古今人们普遍认为...,所以...这里的opinion只是一个事实, which is 人们认为yawning和看到别人yawn有关. 此题的逻辑错误类似我们说的人云亦云.

tianwan

D的in a matter是状语还是定语？