Dara: Computers will never write good novels, since none has ever done so.
Evan: By that reasoning, nobody could have predicted the airplane before 1903.
Evan responds to Dara by
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. showing that her reasoning would produce an absurd result in a parallel case
- Step 1: Evan applies Dara's reasoning to another case. Step 2. The result is clearly wrong, so the reasoning is flawed. Answer: showing an absurd result in a parallel case. Why not the others: he does not do these things.
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