单选题 Philosopher: The eighteenth-century thesis that motion is absolute asserts that the change in an object's position over time could be measured without reference to the position of any other object. A well-respected physicist, however, claims that this thesis is incoherent. Since a thesis that is incoherent cannot be accepted as a description of reality, motion cannot be absolute.
The argument uses which one of the following argumentative techniques?

A、 Attempting to persuade by the mere use of technical terminology.
B、 Using experimental results to justify a change in definition.
C、 Relying on the authority of an expert to support a premise.
D、 Inferring from what has been observed to be the case under experimental conditions to what is in principle true.
E、 (E) Generalizing from what is true in one region of space to what must be true in all regions of space.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题的短文仅根据某一个颇受尊敬的物理学家认为这篇论文是不连贯的，就否定了该论文的结论，很显然作者支持他的结论的证据是在诉诸权威，而不是在诉诸事实，因此(C)是正确答案；(A)、(B)、(D)和(E)很明显都不是本题所用的论证技巧。