Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, an argument is followed by two assumptions. Which of the given assumptions is/are implicit in the argument?

Argument: Why should we not find some representative men who may stand for the virtuous mean of the human society? Such men must clearly not be men of genius.

Assumptions:

(A) A man of genius tends to take himself out of the general category altogether.

(B) Only the mean can represent the whole.

  1. If assumption (A) alone is implicit.

  2. If assumption (B) alone is implicit.

  3. If either (A) or (B) is implicit.

  4. If neither (A) nor (B) is implicit.

  5. If both (A) and (B) are implicit.
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Explanation

Neither of the assumptions is implicit. Men of genius are an undesirable choice, not because they take themselves out, but because they do not represent the mean. Possibly the focus of the argument is that the mean ‘should’ represent the whole. There is no assumption that nothing else 'can'.

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