Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT136 S4 Q5 Explanation

A famous artist once claimed

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Stimulus

A famous artist once claimed that all great art imitates nature. If this claim is correct, then any music that is great art would imitate nature. But while some music may imitate ocean waves or most great music imitates nothing at all.

What this question is testing

Main Conclusion

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
5.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope1% picked this

    Music is inferior to the other

    The inferiority or the superiority of music is not discussed in the argument.

  2. Correct77% picked this

    Either the artist's claim is incorrect, or most great music is

    Why this is right

    This offers a rebuttal of the famous artist or the acknowledgement that the principle about great art is not always applicable to great music.

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

  3. Out of Scope8% picked this

    Like some great music, some great painting and sculpture may fail

    Cases of great painting and sculpture are not discussed in the argument.

  4. Out of Scope11% picked this

    Some elements of nature cannot be represented adequately by

    How adequately great art represents nature is not discussed in the argument.

  5. Contradiction3% picked this

    Sounds that do not imitate nature are not

    This contradicts the argument’s premise that “most great music imitates nothing at all.”

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