Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on a scientist's notebooks
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The notebooks prove that the discovery was made in March 1859: the entry for the 14th describes the result in full.
Text 2
The entry is dated 14 March 1859, but it is written in an ink the chemist did not buy until the following year, and it sits on a page whose earlier entries were scraped away. The result may well have been found in 1859; the entry was not written then.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 treats the evidence cited in Text 1?
- A. Text 2 accepts that the entry exists but argues that physical evidence shows it was written later than its date claims.Correct
- B. Text 2 denies that the notebooks contain any entry for March 1859.
- C. Text 2 argues that the discovery was never made.
- D. Text 2 agrees that the entry proves the date of the discovery.
Answer: A. Text 2 accepts that the entry exists but argues that physical evidence shows it was written later than its date claims.
Ink and a scraped page against the written date.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 denies that the notebooks contain any entry for March 1859.
- The entry exists.
- C. Text 2 argues that the discovery was never made.
- Text 2 allows the discovery may date from 1859.
- D. Text 2 agrees that the entry proves the date of the discovery.
- Text 2 says the entry does not prove it.
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