The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in

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Q )The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is certainly imprecise because we are not sure how different from us something might be and still count as "intelligent life". Yet we cannot just decide to define "intelligent life" in some more precise way since it is likely that we will find and recognize intelligent life elsewhere in the universe only if we leave our definitions open to new, unimagined possibilities.

The argument can most reasonably be interpreted as an objection to which one of the following claims?
(A) The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is one that will never be correctly answered.
(B) Whether or not there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, our understanding of intelligent life is limited.
(C) The question about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe must be made more precise if we hope to answer it correctly.
(D) The question whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is so imprecise as to be meaningless.
(E) The question whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is one we should not spend our time trying to answer.

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:54 pm
A--The stimulus takes no position on the overal likelihood of answering the question

B--The stimulus is more focused on our recognition of intelligent life than our understanding of intelligent life

C--The stimulus says that we are only likely to find intelligent life if we leave our definitions imprecise; this contradicts C, which says that we must make our definitions more precise to answer the question.

D--The stimulus admits that the question is imprecise, but it does not claim that it is meaningless.

E--The stimulus mentions nothing about the question being a waste of time.
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Fri May 18, 2012 3:03 am
+1 for C