Inference from Conversation: Oinos and Agathos
XAT 2016 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Hard · Verbal Ability
Read the following conversation:
OINOS: I can comprehend you thus far-that certain operations of what we term Nature, or the natural laws, will, under certain conditions, give rise to that which has all the appearance of creation. Shortly before the final overthrow of the earth, there were, I well remember, many very successful experiments in what some philosophers were weak enough to denominate the creation of animaculae. AGATHOS: The cases of which you speak were, in fact, instances of the secondary creation - and of the only species of creation which has ever been, since the first word spoke into existence the first law.
Which of the following options CANNOT be DEFINITELY inferred based on the above conversation?
- A.
Agathos was explaining something related to creation to Oinos.
- B.
At the time of conversation there was nothing called Earth.
- C.
The creation of animalculae is a natural law.
- D.
Natural laws are creations of philosophers.
- E.
Law is a spoken word.
D
Explanation
Oinos mentions philosophers who denominated creation, but nowhere is it implied that natural laws themselves were created by philosophers. Thus, option D cannot be inferred.
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