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Here is a sentence from an LSAT:

It draws an analogy between semiplaning monohulls and conventional ships that constitutes an objection to the argument's main conclusion, one that is subsequently rejected by appeal to another analogy.
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Does "one" refer to the "main conclusion" or "an objection"? And why?

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The Cambridge dictionary defines one as a pronoun meaning

used to refer to a particular thing or person within a group or range of things or people that are possible or available

As an example, you might say:

I have picked some apples. Would you like one?

In this sentence, one refers to one of the group of apples.

"an objection" is one of a group of objections, so one could refer to it, but "the ... main conclusion" is the only main conclusion, so one cannot refer to it.

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