Logical Reasoning

PT104 · S1 · Q20 A poem is any work of art that

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A poem is any work of art that exploits some of the musical characteristics of language, such as meter, rhythm, euphony, and rhyme.

Conditionals

Work of art + → poem Exploits some musical qualities of language

Limerick → ~art

Other Facts

Novels usually don't exploit musical characteristics of language. Symphonies usually don't involve language.

Evaluation

This is kind of a mess. When we read that novels don't usually exploit the musical characteristics of language (after having just learned that this is one of the definitional qualities of a poem), we could infer that novels are usually not poems. Technically, that looks like we're doing an illegal negation (if you're not the left side, you're not the right side), but in context the first sentence feels to me like a bi-conditional.

Since it's definitional, it seems fair to say that if you fit that definition, you are a poem and if you don't fit that definition you aren't a poem.

We could similarly infer that limericks are not poems, since they don't have the definitional ingredient of being a work of art.

Goal

Because of how messy the facts are, I would primarily think about the two conditionals we were given. We have the power to prove something is a poem. We have the power to prove something isn't art.

20.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

  1. If a creation is neither

    Too Strong

    The only rule we have that lets us prove something isn't art is if that thing is a limerick. Couldn't there be other things not mentioned in this paragraph (music, sculpture, dance, etc.) that can be considered a work of art?

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  2. An example of so-called blank

    Bad Trigger Match

    If something doesn't exploit any musical quality of language, then it isn't a poem. Blank verse doesn't exploit rhyme, but maybe it still uses meter or euphony. So it could still be a poem.

    3% picked this

  3. Correct

    If a novel exploits meter

    Why this is right

    Our first conditional allows us to prove that something is a poem. Does this description satisfy our trigger for proving something is a poem? It just has to be a work of art (which it says this novel is) and it has to exploit at least one musical characteristic of language (it says this novel exploits two of them). Since this novel satisfies the two conditions on the trigger, it would be considered a poem.

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    58% picked this

  4. Limericks constitute a nonartistic type

    Contradicted

    Since limericks aren't art, but poems are, there isn't going to be any overlap between limericks and poetry.

    25% picked this

  5. If a symphony does not

    Bad Trigger Match

    The only mechanism we were given for proving that something isn't art is if it is a limerick. So there's no way to prove that this type of symphony is not art.

    8% picked this

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