Logical Reasoning

PT135 · S4 · Q20 When teaching art students

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When teaching art students about the use of color, teachers should use colored paper rather than paint in their demonstrations.

Conclusion

When teaching students about color, teachers should use colored paper rather than paint.

Evidence

Colored paper permits an exact replica of the same color, used in different contexts. Meanwhile, it's hard to mix paint so that you get the exact same color twice, and it's more liable to looking different based on the texture of surfaces you're applying it to.

Evaluation

If we're giving advice about how teachers should teach about color, we must have some assumptions about what should be taught in a color lesson. If we argued, , I would be assuming that .

What is the comparative advantage that colored paper has over colored paint? The former makes it way easier to exactly reproduce the same color, so that students can see the pure effect of that color in different contexts.

Goal

So the author must be assuming that when you're teaching about color, it's important to use the exact same version of a color / it's important to let students make a precise comparison of that color's impact in varying contexts.

She's also assuming that .

20.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

  1. Two pieces of paper of

    Too Strong

    We know that the author thinks that colored paper allows a teacher to exactly reproduce the same color, but it would be too strong to say the author assumes that "it will have the same effect, even if different textures". Since she believes that different textures on which paint is painted can make for a different effect, she may certainly believe that paper with different textures could produce different effects.

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  2. A slight difference in the

    Unknown Comparison

    We never got granular enough with differences between paper and paint to know how the author would judge this comparison. The author thinks it's harder to achieve the same color in paint, but this is saying it's easier to detect a difference in paint color than paper color. Who knows? It could be equally hard, but it's irrelevant.

    9% picked this

  3. Changing light conditions have less

    Unknown Comparison

    We never talked about lighting conditions, so we don't know whether it has more / less / same effect with paper as it does with paint.

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  4. Correct

    Observing the impacts of colors

    Why this is right

    This sounds like our prephrase: "when teaching color, it's important that the students can make precise comparisons between the same color across varying contexts". If we negated this, and observing the impact across varying contexts didn't help students to learn, then it would make no difference to art teachers that paint is more variable when it comes to reproducing the exact same color in different contexts. That would badly weaken the argument.

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

    62% picked this

  5. It is important that art

    Out of Scope

    Out of Scope: effects of using paper vs. paint The argument was about the effect of using paper vs. paint when it came to allowing students to measure the same color in different contexts. But this answer is talking about teaching students about the difference between art projects that use colored paper and those that use paint. Even though this sounds like a very reasonable thing an art teacher would believe, this is not integral to the author's argument. This answer would be more a lesson about materials. The author's argument was regarding a lesson about color, and she was arguing that colored paper is a better way to learn about color than is colored paint.

    4% picked this

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