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Its contemporary art collection is small because its curators believe that there is little high-quality contemporary art [the amount is appropriate].
The relatively small size of the museum’s contemporary collection is appropriate.
The argument assumes that what the curators believe is appropriate is in fact appropriate.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in Simpson's response to Vandenburg?
An art museum should collect
Why this is right
This justifies the curators’ belief about what is an appropriate amount of contemporary art.
Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
82% picked this
An art museum should not
This might weaken the argument if it could be established that what the museum’s founders defined as the museum’s purpose and what the curators see as the museum’s purpose are at odds.
2% picked this
An art museum's purpose need
This is too weak to justify the reasoning because this does not necessarily apply to this art museum. Furthermore, this does not go far enough to support the curators’ decision to limit the quantity of contemporary art.
12% picked this
An ethnographic museum's purpose should
This museum is not an ethnographic museum.
2% picked this
The intentions of an art
This undermines the argument by challenging the museum curators’ decisions.
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