PrepTest 159 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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Ceremony in sports · Display and spectators are important

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Standards · Sports maintains defined standards of excellence and has knowledgeable audiences

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Not like artistic performance · Experimentation in arts leads to confusion of standards for excellence

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Gumbrecht’s view · Sports can be beautiful

Many people don’t realize sports has aesthetic appeal.

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13.

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Author’s perspective

Implied

This is an Implied question concerning Author A's perspective. What would Author A be most likely to agree with concerning Kant's view, as described in Passage B? Kant's view is that beauty is paradoxical since, although purpose isn't required for beauty, anything beautiful looks like it has a purpose. It's difficult to anticipate how Author A thinks about this view, since Author A doesn't comment on the relationship between beauty and purpose. We'll have to use process of elimination.

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This is the most supported answer. Notice that, unlike some other answers, (A) doesn't require us to think Author A agrees or disagrees with Kant's views. Instead, (A) is about whether audiences judge art in a way that conforms to Kant's views concerning beauty and purpose. Author A tells us that for many people, "novelty and shock value" is "the only surviving measure of excellence" in the arts. This provides some evidence that contemporary audiences don't judge the beauty of art based on purpose.

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Not supported. Author A doesn't suggest that she disagrees with Kant's views concerning the relationship between beauty and purpose.

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Not supported. We don't have any evidence Author A thinks Kant's views cannot describe the work of any artists. Author A doesn't suggest that she disagrees with Kant's views concerning the relationship between beauty and purpose.

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We don't know whether Author A thinks the paradoxical relationship between beauty and purpose applies "equally well" in arts and sports. It's possible Author A thinks Kant's views apply better to arts than sports or vice versa; we don't have any evidence either way.

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Not supported. Author A doesn't suggest anything about the causes of experimentation in art. She merely notes that there is experimentation and that this has resulted in confusion about standards.

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