If an artist receives a public

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match21% picked this

   An artist has a moral duty to urge deserving fellow artists to try to obtain public subsidies, especially if those artists' projects

   This argument isn't trying to say that successful artists have a moral duty to urge fellow artists of anything. It's saying that successful artists have a moral duty to repay the subsidy.

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2. B

   Bad Conclusion Match9% picked this

   A financially successful artist should acknowledge that financial success is not solely a function

   This argument isn't trying to say that successful artists should acknowledge something. It's saying that successful artists should repay the subsidy.

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3. C

   Correct66% picked this

   A subsidy should be understood as creating a debt that, though routinely forgiven, is rightly forgiven only if either the debtor is unable to

   Why this is right

   They really went to great lengths to make this answer awful. Let's cut through the warm-up fluff that is meant to distract us from the functional conditional rule we're getting with the "only if". Only if = right side, Necessary indicator If ... Then ... subsidy debt debtor can't repay rightly forgiven ? or creditor not interested in repayment Our author is concluding, "successful artists are morally obliged to pay back their subsidies", so we would want to contrapose this rule so that the right side better matches the conclusion. If ... Then ... debtor can repay and subsidy debt creditor is interested ? is not in repayment forgiven This matches the argument well. The evidence talked about artists whose success would allow them to repay, so the debtor (the recipient of the subsidy) is able to repay. The creditor (the agency distributing the subsidies) will welcome that money returned to the agency, so the creditor is interested in repayment. So we can trigger the rule, and that gets us closer to our Conclusion, by saying the successful artist's debt is not forgiven. They do owe that money back.

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

   66%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   The provider of a subsidy should judge as most deserving of subsidies those whose projects are most likely

   We're looking for a principle that says that the recipient of a subsidy should repay it. This is a principle that's talking about how the provider of a subsidy should allocate money.

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5. E

   Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

   An artist requesting a subsidy for a potentially profitable project should be required to make a reasonable effort to

   We're looking for a principle that says that the recipient of a subsidy should repay it. This is a principle that's talking about how the applicant for a subsidy should have already tried to get a bank loan first.

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