Which one of the following assertions from passage A provides support for the view attributed to Maritain in passage ...

Newt on April 9 at 02:06AM

Question 5 D)

Could anyone explain to me how is "Economy of Expression" equals "Oral tradition?" Thank you!

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Emil-Kunkin on April 9 at 06:54PM

The author is trying to show that in some respects, oral traditions are superior. The reasons that they give for this are that oral traditions improve the memory and enourage what is useless or irrelevant to be omitted. In other words, oral traditions favor omitting needless words and ideas. This directly shows why D strengthens the argument: if economy of expression is good, then the mode of info storing that encourages economy of expression is to be favored.

Newt on April 11 at 01:27PM

Got it. Thank you!