Logical Reasoning

PT105 · S1 · Q14 If an artist receives a public

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If an artist receives a public subsidy to support work on a specific project—e.g., making a film—and if this project then proves successful enough to allow the artist to repay the subsidy, is the artist morally obliged to do so?

Conclusion (clearly)

If a subsidized art project is successful enough that it allows the artist to repay the public subsidy, the artist is morally obliged to do so.

Evidence (since)

The public subsidy agency will welcome the repayment, because they can use that money to fund some new up-and-coming artists.

Evaluate

For Strengthen-Principle, we're principally (haha, get it?) trying to anticipate a Linking idea, that should sound like "If Premise, then Conclusion".

We want the principle to have a trigger that discusses the Premise, like, .

And we want it to have an outcome that sounds like the Conclusion, .

Goal

Let's look for something like

If ... Then ... you're able to repay and morally the people you're repaying → obligated would welcome that source to pay of opportunity for others

14.

Which one of the following principles, if established, most helps to justify the conclusion in the passage?

  1. An artist has a moral

    Bad Conclusion Match

    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.

    21% picked this

  2. A financially successful artist should

    Bad Conclusion Match

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

    10% picked this

  3. Correct

    A subsidy should be understood

    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.

    65% picked this

  4. The provider of a subsidy

    Unrelated to Goal

    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.

    3% picked this

  5. An artist requesting a subsidy

    Unrelated to Goal

    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.

    0% picked this

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