LR Question 16 Explanation
QUESTION TEXT: Media consultant: Electronic media are bound to bring…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Electronic media will get rid of the traditional school.
REASONING: Printed books helped bring about the traditional school. Electronic media is fulfilling the role of printed books.
ANALYSIS: The argument hasn’t shown that books are necessary to schools. They just helped schools arise, centuries ago.
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- This isn’t circular reasoning. The evidence for the conclusion is that books are being replaced by electronic media. It’s bad evidence, but the argument isn’t circular.
- There isn’t a single expert mentioned.
- The argument hasn’t even managed to prove that schools could go away.
- CORRECT. Books helped schools to arise. But the argument hasn’t proven that they are necessary for schools.
- This is densely worded but meaningless. The argument didn’t mention how valuable schools are or how they operate (in what medium.)
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it does mention how they operate though.
You’re correct, how they operate is mentioned. However, the argument did not mention the value of schools, or do anything to remotely connect how the schools operate to its supposed value. So there can’t be confusion between value and how schools operate, since value wasn’t mentioned.