PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 23
Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying(435 more words not shown)
According to the passage, organicists'(10 more words not shown)
- Aoversimplified systems by(3 more words not shown)
- Bassumed that a(7 more words not shown)
- Cignored the laws(7 more words not shown)
- Dclaimed that the(13 more words not shown)
- Edenied the claim(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What was the organicists' complaint? Studying a part by itself could lose the complexity of the system. Think of our liver example: their concern is that looking at the liver alone misses its connections with the rest of the body. We need their stated objection, even though the author later challenges it.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The opening says that when parts are isolated, the system's “complexity tends to be lost.” Oversimplifying by isolating components expresses that concern directly.
- B
They don't deny that a system has parts we can separate. They object to what gets lost when we study those parts in isolation.
- C
The laws of the whole system appear in the author's later response. Ignoring those laws is not how the organicists' chief objection is stated; the opening focuses on losing complexity.
- D
No claim ranks the parts as more important than the whole. Studying parts separately doesn't itself make that judgment.
- E
The analytic method is not said to deny relationships. The complaint is that isolating parts loses something about the system, not that its supporters deny connections exist.
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