Conclusion It is an absurd idea that whatever artistic endeavor the government refuses to support it does not allow, as one can see by Support rephrasing the statement to read: No one is allowed to create art without a government subsidy.
Let's start by translating the claim the author calls absurd into a conditional:
Original claim: Whatever artistic endeavor the government refuses to support, it does not allow.
no gov't support → not allowed
Now let's translate the rephrasing:
Rephrasing: No one is allowed to create art without a government subsidy.
allowed → gov't subsidy
Take the contrapositive of the rephrasing:
no gov't subsidy → not allowed
That's identical to the original claim. So the rephrasing is just a logically equivalent way of stating the same conditional. The author hasn't changed the logic at all. She's just reworded it.
The pattern we need to match has two parts:
1. Claim some conditional statement is absurd.
2. Reword it as a logically equivalent statement (the contrapositive) to highlight the absurdity.
The key test for each answer: translate both the original claim and the rewording into conditionals, and check whether they're logically equivalent. If the rewording changes the logic (flips the direction, introduces a new concept, etc.), it doesn't match the stimulus pattern.
Analysis by Kevin_Lin
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