PrepTest 86, Section 3, Question 5
Many fictional works have characters who are supposedly precognitive—that is, able to accurately perceive future events. But a perception of a future event is accurate only if that event comes to pass. Thus, the plots of these works often show that the characters are not truly precognitive, since some of the future events the characters perceive do not in fact come to pass.
Many fictional works have characters who are supposedly precognitive—that is, able to accurately perceive future events. But a perception of a future event is accurate only if that event comes to pass. Thus, the plots of these works often show that the characters are not truly precognitive, since some of the future events the characters perceive do not in fact come to pass.
Many fictional works have characters who are supposedly precognitive—that is, able to accurately perceive future events. But a perception of a future event is accurate only if that event comes to pass. Thus, the plots of these works often show that the characters are not truly precognitive, since some of the future events the characters perceive do not in fact come to pass.
Many fictional works have characters who are supposedly precognitive—that is, able to accurately perceive future events. But a perception of a future event is accurate only if that event comes to pass. Thus, the plots of these works often show that the characters are not truly precognitive, since some of the future events the characters perceive do not in fact come to pass.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A character is truly precognitive only if all of that character's perceptions of future events are accurate.
It is impossible for someone to perceive future events accurately with absolute consistency.
The plots of fictional works that portray characters as precognitive often do not specify whether the future events those characters perceive come to pass.
When fictional works portray characters as precognitive, those characters' perceptions of future events are generally central to the plots of those works.
No work of fiction has portrayed a truly precognitive character.
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