A mutually exclusive theory is either true or false based on its ability to demonstrate a substantive line of evidence against a theory that contradicts it. Niels Bohrs observations of quantum particles demonstrated that Einsteins theory of relativity could only partially account for the full scope of the phenomenon of gravity: Einstein failed to account for the mathematical unpredictability of quantum gravity, a factor that is now a well-established fact in the physic community. Therefore, because quantum theory contradicts the mathematical predictability of planetary gravity, Bohrs observations of the behavior of quantum particles proved the truth of quantum theory.
The argument above is open to the objection that it makes the questionable assumption that
A) Bohr should be credited with having proved that Einsteins theory is false.
(B) a series of unconventional experiments were necessarily performed in order to show Einsteins theory to be false.
(C) the planetary and quantum theories of gravity, being inconsistent, cannot both be based on the same evidence.
(D) Einstein and Bohrs theories, being contradictory, cannot both be false.
(E) there is some evidence that would be inconsistent with the account given by the Bohrs theory but consistent with the account given by the Einsteins theory.
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The argument above is open to the objection that it makes the questionable assumption that
A) Bohr should be credited with having proved that Einsteins theory is false.
(B) a series of unconventional experiments were necessarily performed in order to show Einsteins theory to be false.
(C) the planetary and quantum theories of gravity, being inconsistent, cannot both be based on the same evidence.
(D) Einstein and Bohrs theories, being contradictory, cannot both be false.
(E) there is some evidence that would be inconsistent with the account given by the Bohrs theory but consistent with the account given by the Einsteins theory.
Any ideas?