PT102.S2.Q22

PrepTest 102 - Section 2 - Question 22

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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.

Translating the Stimulus

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.

What to Look For

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.

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22.

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e

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