pt 14, s4, q 25 for the love of god please help! Forum

[flash21]

Can someone please explain this? I don't get it at all. I cannot even picture whats going on in the argument (can someone draw out the picture in paint?). I did the AC's anyway and got to B/C and picked C, the CR is "B". If someone could break down the argument and the AC's that would be great. Thanks.

[Christine (MLSAT)]

I don't think it's necessary to have a perfect understanding of exactly what the image looks like. The important things to understand are that there are two images: 1) sunburst pattern of straight rays and 2) large bird made of curved lines; and that the two images overlap.

Sorting out the question stem itself here is a bit of a beast. Might be easiest to actually think of it as two people talking -

Bob: I think they these images refer to astronomical phenomena!
Mary: Nah, the fact that they overlap shows they served unrelated purposes.

We want the strongest counter to (made up) Mary's point. Essentially, we want to find an answer that shows that even if the specific purposes for the two images are unrelated, they could still BOTH be referring to astronomical phenomena - in other words, even if (made up) Mary is right, that doesn't prove (made up) Bob wrong.

One REALLY important aspect to keep in mind is that an answer that effectively counters this 'unrelated to each other' objection is going to need to address both images, not just one.

(B) gives us information about each image - it suggests that the the specific purpose for the two images are not directly related, as Mary suggests, but the two images are still referring to astronomical phenomena (sight lines to astronomical events and a representation of a constellation).

(C) only talks about the straight line pattern. This doesn't give us any information about whether the two images are related or unrelated, and doesn't suggest that either one of them are referring to astronomical phenomena.

(A) So now we know that ancient people sometimes did astronomical things with rocks. This doesn't really do much for the specific objection about these images overlapping.

(D) Just like (A), this tells us that ancient people did astronomical stuff with rocks. Still doesn't do much for the specific objection about the images overlapping.

(E) This actually seems like it supports (made up) Mary's objection that the images are unrelated. Doesn't seem to do much to counter it or undermine the weight of it, and doesn't make any connection to astronomical stuff.

I think the toughest part here is sorting out the stem - once you realize that you have a position and and objection, and that you want to counter the objection, the whole thing gets a bit easier to parse out. What do you think?

[flash21]

Thank you! this stim was very hard for me to wrap my head around. will continue to come back to it .