QUESTION TEXT: Scientific and technological discoveries have…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: You can’t trust predictions about a society that makes many discoveries.
REASONING: Discoveries greatly affect how a society develops.
ANALYSIS: The argument is assuming that we can’t predict future scientific and technological discoveries, and how they will affect society.
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- The argument didn’t say predictions are harmful. It said predictions are hard.
- The argument didn’t say every society needed discoveries. It just said that it’s hard to predict how a society will change if that society has many discoveries.
- CORRECT. If forecasts of discoveries and their effects are completely accurate, then it shouldn’t be any harder to predict the development of a society with many discoveries.
- The argument did not say whether discoveries are good or bad. It just said they make it hard to predict how a society will evolve.
- If it’s equally difficult to predict discoveries in both types of society, how does that make it easier to predict how discoveries will change society?
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