PrepTest 132, Section 3, Question 28
Computers have long been utilized in the sphere(437 more words not shown)
The examples of situations that(16 more words not shown)
- Asubstantiate the usefulness(7 more words not shown)
- Billustrate a vulnerability(7 more words not shown)
- Cisolate issues that(8 more words not shown)
- Dexplain how legal(7 more words not shown)
- Equestion the value(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Is a mobile home a house or a vehicle? Can a couple count as married without a formal ceremony? Those are the examples. Their job is to make the interpretive problem concrete: applying a legal rule can require a judgment about how to describe the facts.
Working the answers
- A
The examples illustrate a difficulty for these programs, not a successful use of them.
- BCorrect
A rule-based program needs to know which rules apply to the facts. These examples show why that step isn't always straightforward. A category such as house or married may require interpretation before the program can work through the consequences. That's a vulnerability in the approach.
- C
The author is skeptical about the capabilities of the systems described, including their foreseeable development. That isn't a demonstration that computers are incapable in principle of handling these issues. We shouldn't turn a practical limitation into an impossibility claim.
- D
The author gives situations that may require interpretation, not a history showing how particular rules were adapted or how the examples were legally resolved.
- E
These examples occur in the discussion of rule-based systems. They don't challenge the value of reasoning from precedents; they illustrate the interpretation that applying legal rules can require.
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