UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

An explanation aims to clarify why a known fact or event occurred, whereas an argument tries to persuade someone that a claim is true or that an action should be taken. In the glass example, the breaking of the glass is already accepted as a fact, and the statement “because it was dropped from a great height” offers a causal account of why it happened. Therefore, it functions as an explanation rather than an attempt to establish a new claim.

Option A:
Option A attempts to convince someone to change behaviour based on a causal claim and a prescriptive conclusion, so it is an argument.

Option B:
Option B focuses on making sense of an observed event rather than proving that the event occurred, fitting the explanatory role.

Option C:
Option C tries to establish the product’s quality as a conclusion based on what “everyone says,” and thus acts as an argument, albeit a weak one.

Option D:
Option D presents a conditional prediction and may be used as a premise in an argument, but by itself it is not primarily explanatory of an accepted fact.