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#17 - Zoologist: Animals can certainly signal each other

 jonwg5121
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-  Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:32 pm #19751
Can you please explain how to best tackle #17? After reading the stimulus, I felt (C) to be the right answer. What would be the steps that I need to take to reach the right answer? Thanks!
 David Boyle
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-  Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:20 pm #19758
jonwg5121 wrote:Can you please explain how to best tackle #17? After reading the stimulus, I felt (C) to be the right answer. What would be the steps that I need to take to reach the right answer? Thanks!
Hello jonwg5121,

C is not correct because we don't know for certain that animals' sounds/gestures don't communicate abstract ideas or concrete objects. They may, or they may not. But it isn't proven.
So answer D is much better, in that it states explicitly the implicit assumption of the stimulus, that language requires sounds or gestures referring to concrete objects or abstract ideas.

Hope this helps,
David
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