PT107.S3.Q20

PrepTest 107 - Section 3 - Question 20

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Summarize Argument

The argument concludes that a difference between music and paintings is that hearing music has a temporal element but that looking at a painting has none because there’s no specific path a viewer’s eyes must follow while looking at a painting, while music presents listeners with ordered sounds and silences.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The argument reasons that because there’s no specific line a viewer’s eyes must follow while looking at a painting, but music pieces have a particular order, hearing music has a temporal element while viewing a painting has none. However, the argument is flawed because it concludes that paintings have no temporal element after only pointing out that there isn’t a particular order in which a viewer must look at a painting. While there may be no particular order, that doesn’t necessarily mean that paintings have no temporal dimension.

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20.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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