medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A linguist studying a second-century manuscript notes that one word in its second paragraph appears nowhere else in any surviving text from the period. She argues that because the word is unattested elsewhere, it was almost certainly invented by the manuscript's author rather than borrowed from common usage.
Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the linguist's argument?
- Only a tiny fraction of the texts written in that period have survived to the present day.
- The manuscript's author is known to have coined several other words found in his later writings.
- The word in question appears just once within the manuscript itself.
- Many words invented by ancient authors were later adopted into common usage.
- No word in the manuscript's first paragraph is unattested in other surviving texts.
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