If you know a lot about history, it will be easy for you to impress people who are intellectuals. But unfortunately,...
MouttaDecember 5, 2021
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I know we are too specific and down to the exact word when it comes to answering those questions. What I am mostly confused about is that there is no mentioning anywhere about the difficulty of implementing the required action. Meaning, why “easy” is even mentioned. I know there is the possibility of impressing the intellectual with knowing history but who said anything about the difficulty of doing so?
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Hi @moutta, I won't pretend up to understand the exact intentions of the test writers, but from the stimulus, it looks like they are using the word easy in only one context, that is as a stand in for the word "able." We do not actually care about the ease of doing something here, only that knowing history will enable one to impress intellectuals. I would almost treat the word easy as a quantifier, in the way that If something is easy, then we should be able to do it most of the time.
In the broader picture, I think it is very enticing to get caught up in one word, which is less important than understanding the bigger reason why the argument as a whole is flawed,
