If the following passage contains an argument, write a well-crafted version of it; if the passage is not an argument, classify it as a report, illustration, explanation, or single conditional statement. One must know how a photograph was made in order to correctly interpret it. In this way, photographs are like dental X rays, seismographs, and other records. Photographs are records, and a necessary part of interpreting a record is knowing the causal chain that produced it. Some photographs made by specialized equipment—like the electron microscope—would be reasonably misinterpreted by a viewer ignorant of the origins.

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1. Photographs are records.
2. A necessary part of interpreting a record is knowing the causal chain that produced it.
3. Some photographs made by specialized equipment—like the electron microscope—would be reasonably misinterpreted by a viewer ignorant of the origins.
So, 4. One must know how a photograph was made in order to correctly interpret it.

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