Evaluating Relationships between Statements

XAT 2013 · VALR · Hard · Critical Reasoning

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Choose the most appropriate option after reading the following statements.

  1. If there is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science.
  2. 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.
  3. Internet revolution is happening, making knowledge transfer cheaper. Technology permits it; researchers and politicians want it, more public money can be spent on it.
  1. A.

    Statement 2 definitely illustrates statement 1.

  2. B.

    Statement 3 is a facilitating condition for statement 1

  3. C.

    Statement 3 states a condition under which statement 1 would be invalid

  4. D.

    Statement 2 can be deduced from statement 3 but independent of Statement 1.

  5. E.

    Statement I, 2 and 3 are necessarily independent.

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