For those of you who defend B and D, you have to explain what objection to the line of reasoning it counters or what assumption it validates. B has nothing to do with the evidence, nor does whether the bone flute is the simplest instrumentgeet wrote:The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what is required to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale�the seven-note musical scale used in much of Western music since the Renaissance. Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the hypothesis?
A. Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals.
B. No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatonic scale is of an earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
C. The flute was made from a cave-bear bone and the campsite at which the flute fragment was excavated was in a cave that also contained skeletal remains of cave bears.
D. Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allow playing a diatonic scale.
E. The cave-bear leg bone used to make the Neanderthal flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale
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that could play the full scale.
The most evident objection to the argument is that evidence that 4 of the 7 notes could be played on this bone flute does not prove that the all 7 notes could be played. Is this a fragment from a bone flute that , in its entirety, would be long enough to play all 7 notes? If not, the hypothesis lacks credibility.
Famous among lovers of good food is the film "Babette's Feast", in which a self-exiled French chef named Babette bestows on her unappreciative hosts a lengthy seven-course meal featuring as starters "Potage à la Tortue" (turtle soup) and "Blini Demidoff au Caviar" (buckwheat pancakes with caviar). One night last week, Lisa peered through her neighbours' dining room window and saw that her neighbours and their guests were having precisely these dishes, dishes that were being served by someone who bore a striking resemblance to Babette. Lisa hypothesized that they she was witnessing a reenactment of that famous meal.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken Lisa's hypothesis?
(A) Lisa's neighbours loved the novel on which "Babette's Feast" is based, although they have never seen the film.
(B) Lisa's neighbours do not know how to cook, nor do they know anybody from France.
(C) Caviar is not sold in the town in which Lisa lives.
(D) Lisa's neighbours went to the cinema as soon as they had finished the pancakes.
(E) Had her neighbours known that Lisa was familiar with "Babette's Feast" , they would certainly have invited her to any reenactment of the meal in that film.
(E) Lisa did not actually see how many courses her neighbours actually had at dinner that night.
