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Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.
Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.
Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.
The conclusion of the columnist's argument can be properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?
Most video game creators do
Since this answer doesn't give us a way to establish that the aesthetic experience of video games isn't controlled by the creator(s) of the video game, it's functionally useless to us. That is the fact we need to establish in order to prove that video games aren't art.
1% picked this
An aesthetic experience cannot be
Why this is right
This says that, "If an aesthetic experience is interactive (as is the case with video games), then the aesthetic experience isn't controlled by the creators of that video game." And for something to be a work of art, the aesthetic experience must be controlled by the creators. So together, this proves that video games are not works of art.
Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
89% picked this
For something to be a
We already have a way to prove that video games aren't art (establish that the aesthetic experience isn't controlled by the creators), so this answer should feel fishy. This answer, however, does have the potential to prove that something isn't art. Does its trigger apply to video games? Were we told that video games do not produce a rich aesthetic experience? We were not. If anything, it is suggested that they sometimes do produce such an experience. Since we don't know if the trigger applies to video games, we don't know whether the outcome would apply.
2% picked this
Typically, video game players do
Even though "typically" is fairly strong (same as most, generally, usually), it is not 100% of cases. The conclusion we're trying to prove is about 100% of cases, so by sheer strength of language alone we know this won't do the job.
5% picked this
Players’ choices that have no
Since this answer doesn't give us a way to establish that the aesthetic experience of video games isn't controlled by the creator(s) of the video game, it's functionally useless to us. That is the fact we need to establish in order to prove that video games aren't art.
2% picked this
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