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ID: LSAT-LR-022
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Historian: It is said that the canal ruined the town's weaving trade. But the trade was already going under before the first barge moved: the parish records show weavers leaving in every year of the preceding decade, and the number of looms in the parish had halved over the same years. What the canal did was give the weavers who were left somewhere to go.

The historian's argument proceeds by

Ashowing that the benefits the canal brought to the town outweighed the loss of a trade that had in any case begun to fail before the first barge moved

Barguing that the weaving trade was not ruined at all, and had not even begun to decline in the decade before the first barge moved

Cquestioning the reliability of the parish records on which the customary account of the weaving trade's decline rests, and treating their figures as too rough to date its collapse

Dappealing to conclusions that historians of comparable towns on other waterways have reached about the trades that failed there

Eciting evidence that a supposed cause came after the effect had begun, and proposing a different role for it

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