Some philosophers explain visual perception by suggesting that when we ... ...
Some philosophers explain visual perception by suggesting that when we visually perceive an object,
a mental image of that object forms in our mind. However, this hypothesis cannot be correct, since it would require an inner self visually perceiving the newly formed mental image; this would in turn require that the inner self have a mental image of that mental image, and so on. But such an infinite regress is absurd.
Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its pattern of reasoning to the argument above?
(A) According to some linguists, many of the world’s languages can be traced back to a common source known as Indo-European. However, Indo-European cannot be the earliest language, for if it were, then there would be no language from which it was derived. But this is highly unlikely, given the overwhelming evidence that humans spoke long before the advent of Indo-European.
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*This question is included in
PT71 (Dec 2013): Logical Reasoning A
