PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 25
Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying(435 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly supports(16 more words not shown)
- AA complex system(17 more words not shown)
- BThe parts of(18 more words not shown)
- CIt is not(17 more words not shown)
- DBecause the parts(15 more words not shown)
- EStudying the parts(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These are the scientists using the analytic method, not the organicists criticizing it. The final paragraph says they establish the system's laws and initial conditions before examining its parts. Keep that description available as we check which view we can attribute to them.
Working the answers
- A
“Full isolation” is precisely what the final paragraph denies. Separate study doesn't mean ignoring the system a part belongs to.
- BCorrect
The scientists first established the system’s governing laws and starting conditions (paragraph 5). Their study of the parts therefore takes that background into account. This describes the method we were given.
- C
This reverses the order. The laws are determined before the parts are analyzed, so separating the parts is not presented as a prerequisite for discovering those laws.
- D
Losing complexity by separating parts is the organicists' objection. It is not the view attributed to the scientists whose method they criticize.
- E
We aren't told that separate study eliminates the need to identify defining characteristics. That distinction appears in the criticism of internal relations, without this additional claim about what analytic scientists need to determine.
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