Methods of Reasoning Questions - - Question 13

Concetta: Franchot was a great writer because she was ahead of her time in understanding that industrialization was t...

grysngh November 19, 2021

“Specific Claim”

Does this term refer to one claim or can it refer to multiple claims? I approached the answer as in only one of the claims were being disputed and therefore crossed it out. Thank you @lsatmax

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Jay-Etter January 19, 2022

I'd say "a specific claim" refers to one claim but "specific claims" is multiple. Note that for C here when Alicia makers her argument, the first sentence is the conclusion, the second is rejecting the criterion (i.e. saying grasping social issues isn't the criterion for being a great writer), and the third sentence is disagreeing with a specific claim (that Franchot was not even the first to understand the social consequences of industrialization in any case).