Q12 - Akhenaten and his soliders

[nandy_millette]

This question is fairly straight forward. I approached the question like so:

Premise: Akhenaten soldiers showed him fierce loyalty as documented by the reports written during his time.

Conclusion: because of this (fierce loyalty shown by soldiers) we know that he was loved and highly respected by his subjects.

My two assumptions derived before looking at the answer choices:
Assumption 1: loyalty= love and respect
Assumption 2: soldiers= all his subjects

A-introduce info that conflicts the conclusion-what conflicting info? wrong answer

B-relies on info that is impossible to challenge- just because it is based on information (the soldiers) and books (reports written during Akhenten's reign) that are old does not mean that we cannot challenge the information.

D-ambiguity of the term "ancient"- wrong answer the word was used consistently through out the stimulus.

E-present day standards--what? are you kidding me? wrong

C- correct answer-makes a generalization (Akhenten was well loved and respected) based on his sample (his solders loyalty) that is likely to be unrepresentative (of all his subjects)

This answer choice embodies Assumption 2 from above. This is the method I use for most Assumption questions

[ohthatpatrick]

FANTASTIC explanation. Keep it up!

[lsat2016]

What would be an example of an "evidence that in principle would be impossible to challenge"??

[LolaC289]

What would be an example of an "evidence that in principle would be impossible to challenge"??

Good question! I would love it if there are more explanations on the wrong answer choices so we can see exactly what are the circumstances they can apply to!

In this case, for me it would be something like, "The other day I was going to across the road, but a voice inside my head told me not to. I stopped and that was when the dire car accident happened right in front of me. This is direct evidence that God exist."

Here the evidence, the voice inside my head that had stopped me from being crashed comes from God, is impossible to challenge because there is no way to find out if that was the case or not. Does the voice inside your head really come from God? Well, we don't seem to be able to either confirm or disconfirm this. Logically speaking, there is no way to deduct an absolute truth relying on evidence like this, because you simply can't prove or disprove a conclusion from something you can't possibly know. You can tell this by the long-standing dispute about whether God exist. In contrast, for this question, how the soldiers said in the books and documents are clearly challengeable(the truth of the evidence can be sured).

Finally I would like to post my personal question as such. What is an argument rely only on sentimental appeal? I believe I saw it multiple times in Flaw wrong answer choices in LR. Sorry I can not post original question on here because I forgot which one.

Thanks.