Fact, Inference, Judgement For CAT 2008

[rocha]

Originally Posted by anirudhsgi

2. A significant part of the rise in women's wealth status has come from their marrying well, and better.-Judgment as it is author's opinion although verifiable but significant makes it little abstract

4.It reinforces the myth that finding prince charming and marrying him is still a girl's best friend .Judgment as the statement says " it reinforces" which gives us an indication that the author has some fact but how strong is that fact and is it completely supporting the conclusion or not is unknown hence Judgment

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The second one.significant makes it lil abstract .... Isnt tht vague. I mean ive seen similar statements and they turn out to be facts ... How does one decide on "lil abstract" points? I mean authors keep on giving their opinions all the time , its for us to c if tht cn be verified .. Cant we verify this one
Fourth one . I dint understand the explanation .

[HYgoldking]

Originally Posted by Manish Jalan

Can we have answers Goldking?

Except last one all are trying to conclude something. But the conclusion is wrong. So it is judgement. Last one is fact (argument/discussion)

[HYgoldking]

Originally Posted by anirudhsgi

try this:
Please try level best to give exact answer it should be a cake walk

1.American couples looking to adopt children appear to be increasingly turning to India

Judgement ("appear to be increasingly")

2 .Over the last three years,945 Indian children have found homes in
America

(FACT) (Can be verified)

3 . Italy comes next with 419 Indian children being adopted in the past three years

(FACT) (Can be verified)

4. Spain with 301 adoptions and Denmark with 194 should also be considered significant

Judgement ("considered significant")

[Tushit_m]

1.Fact
2.Fact
3.Fact
4.Judgement

P.S- This post is by libi , not able to login....

[anirudhsgi]

Originally Posted by rocha

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The second one.significant makes it lil abstract .... Isnt tht vague. I mean ive seen similar statements and they turn out to be facts ... How does one decide on "lil abstract" points? I mean authors keep on giving their opinions all the time , its for us to c if tht cn be verified .. Cant we verify this one
Fourth one . I dint understand the explanation .

hey Rocha yes that sounds little vague but overall the solution to me is acceptable....May be what it means is that the level of "significance" varies from person to person.......what according to the author is significant may not hold the same significance for any other person......but still its not fully convincing and the fourth one for me is "CRAB" totally opposite to what i thought
Puys please put in your explanations......

[anirudhsgi]

Originally Posted by rocha

My take :

1.American couples looking to adopt children appear to be increasingly turning to India
Fact . Because we can verify that american couples are increasing or not.

2 .Over the last three years,945 Indian children have found homes in
America
Fact. Thats just information.

3 . Italy comes next with 419 Indian children being adopted in the past three years
Fact. Information again

4. Spain with 301 adoptions and Denmark with 194 should also be considered significant
Jugdement. Even though u gotta fact he's sayin it should be so thts his opinion.

I also wanted to ask
i) If there is a strong fact and then the author says something about it .Like an opinion then we take it as a judgement or inference.I mean is an opinion regarding a fact a judgement or an inference ? And how do we choose what it is ??
ii) When we question whether something is verifiable or not how do we conclude that yes it is(verifiable)??

Ok any statement based on a strong fact is an inference given that the conclusion in itself is not verifiable.
And for the verifiable one its just that can you actually check it or not .
For ex: "He loves cricket" should be a fact because you can go and ask him.
well i am not saying this is the way it is done but this is the way i attempt these question for better explanations please refer to the first post of this thread by SiddharthPareek ..............

[anirudhsgi]

hi there!!!!!
sorry only the answer is available not the solution......
Ans:FFFJ

I think the explanation posted by rocha is acceptable.

[anirudhsgi]

try this :
1. Buddhism , which flourished in ancient India as one of its great faith traditions ,is today a minority religion in the country.
2.Its followers are numerically the fourth minority at the national level - next to the Muslims , Christians and Sikhs.
3.Buddhism cannot exist without faith - the soul of Buddhism.
4. Buddhism preaches the theory of cause and effect which makes it relevant in the present world and can be used to overcome the problems throughout the globe.

[ankaj]

Originally Posted by anirudhsgi

try this :
1. Buddhism , which flourished in ancient India as one of its great faith traditions ,is today a minority religion in the country.
2.Its followers are numerically the fourth minority at the national level - next to the Muslims , Christians and Sikhs.
3.Buddhism cannot exist without faith - the soul of Buddhism.
4. Buddhism preaches the theory of cause and effect which makes it relevant in the present world and can be used to overcome the problems throughout the globe.

is it FFIF

[rkapoor9]

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