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#24462
Complete Question Explanation
Method-AP. The correct answer choice is (B)
Even though engineers must translate an inventor’s insight into something useful, they often receive too little credit for their contribution. The Argument Part (AP) mentioned in the question stem focuses on an issue which is not central to this argument: indeed, the claim that inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers lends no additional support to the conclusion. Quite on the contrary: if inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers, then the problem of depriving engineers of the recognition they deserve does not arise in every instance, since some engineers (i.e. the ones that are also inventors) do end up receiving due credit for their contribution. Answer choice (B) is therefore correct.
Answer choice (A): The argument makes no implicit distinction between theory and practice. The author is primarily concerned with the practical problem of engineers not receiving the appreciation they deserve.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. See discussion above.
Answer choice (C): The argument part in question is not a premise of the argument, as the author does not rely on it in making her conclusion.
Answer choice (D): At first, this may seem like an attractive answer choice since the author does “concede” that inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers. However, the author does not concede that the distinction between the two is particularly unclear, only that it is not particularly relevant to every case in which the problem could potentially arise.
Answer choice (E): The AP in question proposes no solution to the problem lamented in this argument. This answer choice is incorrect.
Method-AP. The correct answer choice is (B)
Even though engineers must translate an inventor’s insight into something useful, they often receive too little credit for their contribution. The Argument Part (AP) mentioned in the question stem focuses on an issue which is not central to this argument: indeed, the claim that inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers lends no additional support to the conclusion. Quite on the contrary: if inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers, then the problem of depriving engineers of the recognition they deserve does not arise in every instance, since some engineers (i.e. the ones that are also inventors) do end up receiving due credit for their contribution. Answer choice (B) is therefore correct.
Answer choice (A): The argument makes no implicit distinction between theory and practice. The author is primarily concerned with the practical problem of engineers not receiving the appreciation they deserve.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. See discussion above.
Answer choice (C): The argument part in question is not a premise of the argument, as the author does not rely on it in making her conclusion.
Answer choice (D): At first, this may seem like an attractive answer choice since the author does “concede” that inventors sometimes serve as their own engineers. However, the author does not concede that the distinction between the two is particularly unclear, only that it is not particularly relevant to every case in which the problem could potentially arise.
Answer choice (E): The AP in question proposes no solution to the problem lamented in this argument. This answer choice is incorrect.