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Toby,
I think there is a more straightforward way to see why answer choice (B) is incorrect.
The stimulus is saying that, because one method (statistical analysis) within a general category of methods (physical sciences) won't work to explain a phenomenon (human mental events), no other method within that category will work either.
Answer choice (B) is saying that one method (appeal to the psychology of emotion) won't work to explain some phenomena (computer-generated music) within a general category of phenomena (all music), so no explanation is possible.
Breaking it down even further, the stimulus says that because one kind of explanation won't work, no explanation will work. There's the generalization - one method fails, so all methods fail. Answer choice (B) is saying that one method won't explain some phenomena, so no method can explain all phenomena in that category - the generalization there is from failure to explain one kind of phenomenon to failure to explain all similar phenomena. The generalization is different here. In the stimulus, the generalization is from one failed method to all methods; in answer choice (B), the generalization is not about methods but about the subject matter they're trying to explain.
Robert Carroll
I think there is a more straightforward way to see why answer choice (B) is incorrect.
The stimulus is saying that, because one method (statistical analysis) within a general category of methods (physical sciences) won't work to explain a phenomenon (human mental events), no other method within that category will work either.
Answer choice (B) is saying that one method (appeal to the psychology of emotion) won't work to explain some phenomena (computer-generated music) within a general category of phenomena (all music), so no explanation is possible.
Breaking it down even further, the stimulus says that because one kind of explanation won't work, no explanation will work. There's the generalization - one method fails, so all methods fail. Answer choice (B) is saying that one method won't explain some phenomena, so no method can explain all phenomena in that category - the generalization there is from failure to explain one kind of phenomenon to failure to explain all similar phenomena. The generalization is different here. In the stimulus, the generalization is from one failed method to all methods; in answer choice (B), the generalization is not about methods but about the subject matter they're trying to explain.
Robert Carroll
