To be great, an artwork must

Answer choices

1. A

   Capable of vs. Actually experienced11% picked this

   A computer can create an artwork that expresses sorrow or love only if it has actually

   Yikes, this one is hard! This looks like a legit application of the rule in the 2nd sentence, which says creator incapable of ? artwork can't express experiencing emotion X emotion X However, to be correct this answer should have ended "... only if it has the capacity to experience such an emotion". The rule isn't based on whether the artwork's creator has actually experienced that emotion, just whether they are capable of experiencing it. Inference questions frequently put a really tempting answer in spot (A), so force yourself to read all five before deciding on it (or make a habit of reading from the bottom up) on Inference.

   11%
2. B

   Relative vs. Absolute: great vs. greatest6% picked this

   The greatest art is produced by those who have experienced the

   The information only allows us to talk about "great" in a binary, absolute on/off way. We don't have any language that allows to say one thing is more / less great than another.

   6%
3. C

   Opposite Logic15% picked this

   An artwork that expresses a deep emotion of its creator is

   We know this: artwork doesn't express ? not a great deep emotion artwork This answer is saying this: artwork does express ? is a great deep emotion artwork

   15%
4. D

   Correct66% picked this

   As long as computers are constructed so as to be incapable of experiencing emotions they will

   Why this is right

   This answer is what we were expecting. Since the two conditional rules had an overlapping idea, we chained them together and derived this connection: Artist can't artwork can't artwork experience ? express a ? can't be deep emotion deep emotion great If a computer is incapable of experiencing deep emotions, then we know the artworks that computer creates will not express deep emotions, which means they will always fail to qualify as great artworks.

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

   66%
5. E

   Artwork vs. Artist2% picked this

   Only artworks that succeed in expressing deep emotions are the products

   The first sentence gives us this rule Great artwork ? Expresses deep emotion This answer choice gives us this rule Made by Great Art ? Expresses deep emotion It's pretty close. It has the same logical flow of "great requires expressing deep", but the first sentence is listing a requirement of great artworks, this answer is listing a requirement of "artwork by great artists". We might hear how off this answer choice is from anything we were so far told by rephrasing it this way: every product a great artist makes is an artwork that expresses deep emotions We definitely weren't told anything that is true of 100% of the products of a great artist. We actually weren't told anything about great artists.

   2%