medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A historian argues that because a particular medieval manuscript contains several grammatical errors, the scribe who produced it must have been poorly trained.
The historian's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism because it fails to consider that
- the grammatical errors may have already existed in the source text the scribe was faithfully copying
- the scribe may have been highly skilled in another craft, such as manuscript illumination
- other manuscripts produced in the same period also contain grammatical errors
- this manuscript is the only work by that scribe known to survive
- no scribe of that era could possibly have avoided making at least some grammatical errors
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