PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 24
Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying(435 more words not shown)
The passage offers information to(8 more words not shown)
- AWhy does the(12 more words not shown)
- BWhy did the(6 more words not shown)
- CWhat is the(9 more words not shown)
- DWhat did organicists(14 more words not shown)
- EWhat are some(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need the question left unanswered. Don't try to supply an answer from common sense: check what the text actually explains. The account covers the organicists' complaint, their theory, and the author's objections to it.
Working the answers
- A
Answered in paragraph 4: knowing one entity would require complete prior knowledge of the wholes containing it. That is the impossible prerequisite.
- B
Answered in paragraph 1: organicists thought isolating parts caused the system's complexity to be lost.
- C
Answered in paragraph 3: a defining characteristic affects identity; an accompanying characteristic can be present without doing so. Always being present doesn't make a property defining.
- D
Answered in paragraph 2: a relationship gives an entity a property, which the theory treats as a defining characteristic.
- ECorrect
We aren't given the advantages of separating parts for study. Maybe it makes a difficult system easier to investigate, but that would be our explanation. The final paragraph tells us how the analytic method accounts for the whole; it doesn't explain the benefits of separate study.
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