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by fighting_cax » Sat May 16, 2009 1:12 am
Any serious policy discussion about acceptable levels of risk in connection with explosions is not well served if the participants fail to use the word "explosion" and use the phrase "energetic disassembly" instead. In fact, the word "explosion" elicits desirable reactions, such as a heightened level of attention, whereas the substitute phrase does not. Therefore, of the two terms, "explosion" is the one that should be used throughout discussions of this sort.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above depends?
(A) In the kind of discussion at issue, the advantages of desirable reactions to the term "explosion" outweigh the drawbacks, if any, arising from undesirable reactions to that term.
(B) The phrase "energetic disassembly" has not so far been used as a substitute for the word "explosion" in the kind of discussion at issue.
(C) In any serious policy discussion, what is said by the participants is more important than how it is put into words.
(D) The only reason that people would have for using "energetic disassembly" in place of "explosion" is to render impossible any serious policy discussion concerning explosions.
(E) The phrase "energetic disassembly" is not necessarily out of place in describing a controlled rather than an accidental explosion.

OA is A

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by gmat740 » Sat May 16, 2009 5:04 am
We must see what the conclusion is and how conclusion is reached


Word must have desirable reaction ==> Explosion word must be used.
(B) The phrase "energetic disassembly" has not so far been used as a substitute for the word "explosion" in the kind of discussion at issue
Even if the phrase is used, does this affect the conclusion?? NO
(C) In any serious policy discussion, what is said by the participants is more important than how it is put into words.
Exactly the Opposite answer.
D) The only reason that people would have for using "energetic disassembly" in place of "explosion" is to render impossible any serious policy discussion concerning explosions
we must connect the word Explosion to the premise, and this option fails to do that

E) The phrase "energetic disassembly" is not necessarily out of place in describing a controlled rather than an accidental explosion.

Reason same as D. Fails to include explosion word

Hence Option A

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by khanshainur » Sun May 15, 2016 10:49 pm
Option A looks good than other answers