Evaluating Relationships between Statements
XAT 2013 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Hard · Critical Reasoning
Choose the most appropriate option after reading the following statements.
- If there is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science.
- There is a widespread feeling that the journal publishers who have mediated the scientific exchange for the past century or more are becoming an impediment to free distribution of knowledge.
- Internet revolution is happening, making knowledge transfer cheaper. Technology permits it; researchers and politicians want it, more public money can be spent on it.
- A.
Statement 2 definitely illustrates statement 1.
- B.
Statement 3 is a facilitating condition for statement 1
- C.
Statement 3 states a condition under which statement 1 would be invalid
- D.
Statement 2 can be deduced from statement 3 but independent of Statement 1.
- E.
Statement I, 2 and 3 are necessarily independent.
B
Explanation
Statement 1 advocates for free availability of publicly financed science. Statement 3 describes technological and social developments (the internet revolution) that lower knowledge transfer costs and facilitate making scientific fruits freely available.
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