Logical Reasoning

PT124 · S3 · Q10 Artist: Avant-garde artists

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Artist: Avant-garde artists intend their work to challenge a society's mainstream beliefs and initiate change.

Conclusion

If an avant-garde work becomes popular, it’s an unsuccessful work.

Evidence

Avant-garde artists want to challenge mainstream beliefs and change them. Mainstream beliefs don’t change much over any short period of time. (The idea being that if you’re popular with the mainstream, you must not be challenging and changing the mainstream as you had intended)

Evaluation

The author is rebutting the claim in question. She ultimately argues that if an avant-garde work becomes popular, it is not successful.

Goal

We want something like .

10.

The reference to the claim of certain art collectors plays which one of the following roles in the artist's argument?

  1. It serves to bolster the

    Opposite

    This is the opposite of what we’re looking for. This claim goes against the main conclusion.

    5% picked this

  2. Correct

    It identifies a view that

    Why this is right

    This is another way of saying “counterpoint, the claim the argument is designed to undermine”.

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

    82% picked this

  3. It identifies a position supported

    Not Subsidiary Conclusion

    This claim doesn’t receive support from any other claim. It’s just what some art collectors said.

    3% picked this

  4. It provides support for the

    Not Subsidiary Conclusion

    This claim doesn’t provide support for any other claim. It’s just what some art collectors said, and the author is arguing against it.

    5% picked this

  5. It provides support for a

    Virtual Nonsense

    Haha. This answer is unthinkably weird. No one, including the test writer, knows what this means. Nobody is arguing against the initial premise; we all accept that avant garde artists are seeking to challenge mainstream beliefs and change them. The claim we’re being asked about is a counterpoint to the author’s argument. But there’s no counterargument. Arguments involve at least two claims: the opinion, and the support. All we have from these art collectors is their opinion. This claim isn’t providing support for any other claim.

    6% picked this

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