PT55.S1.Q25 - some twentieth-century art is great

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• jknauf Alum Member

  August 2016 1741 karma

  Hey Emily! Just a heads up, I believe this post violates forum rules
  
  3. Do not post LSAT questions, any copyrighted content, or links to content that infringe on copyright. Not a good way to take the first few steps down a long road that is your legal career.
  
  4. Format for posting questions about specific Logical Reasoning (LR) questions:
  "PT#.S#.Q# (P#) - brief description of stimulus" E.g. PT60.S1.Q7 (P4) - weakened immune system cancer
  
  You can find the rules forum over to the right on the side bar. I would post a link but I'm on mobile so it's a hassle. Same goes for your question. I'll help later if no one else answers. Cheers!
  
  
• emilycyoung1 Free Trial Member

  August 2016 234 karma

  So sorry! @jknauf should I make a new post for this??
• jknauf Alum Member

  August 2016 1741 karma

  @emilycyoung1 are you still able to edit the post? If you can just rewrite it following the format in #4
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  August 2016 27901 karma

  So, I didn’t see the EXCEPT and I almost had a crisis there, lol.
  
  So, your diagraming is correct. But Original Ideas and Influential don’t really have a conditional relationship to each other. At most, we could say Some art that’s influential involves original ideas. They’re both linked to great art, but really have no relationship to each other. If we check out the list method, we can see where this runs afoul. So, maybe there is only 3 pieces of truly great art. That does not affect the sample size of original art or influential art. So we could end up with a list that looks like this:
  G O I
  G O I
  G O I
  O I
  O I
  I
  I
  O
  O
  
  So some overlap between O and I is going to happen because both are necessary conditions of G. Once we’ve exhausted our G’s though, it’s a total free for all. We can have art that is both, one and not the other, the other and not one, or neither. Outside of G, there’s just absolutely nothing linking the two terms together. So we can say “some” because of where they link with G, but we can’t link them in a true conditional statement, which is what Answer choice C does.
• inactive Alum Member

  August 2016 12637 karma

  @emilycyoung1 said:
  should I make a new post for this??
  

  Hey Emily, just let me know what PT, Section# and Question# this is from so I can edit the title for you. I know the text you posted in the original post isn't word for word, so you're good.
• Sprinkles Alum Member ⭐

  August 2016 edited August 2016 11542 karma

  Pt55, section 1,q25 @"Dillon A. Wright"
• inactive Alum Member

  August 2016 12637 karma

  @montaha.rizeq said:
  Pt55, section 1,q25
  

  Thanks!
  
  Text was pretty similar, so I edited it out and replaced it with the link.
• Sprinkles Alum Member ⭐

  August 2016 11542 karma

  @"Dillon A. Wright" said:
  Thanks!
  

  Welcome
• BinghamtonDave Alum Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  August 2016 edited August 2016 8716 karma

  
  
  Ok, so I drew this out for you because sometimes typing conditionals can get a bit confusing. This question asks us the except meaning something that given the stimulus, we cannot prove. What I have boxed in yellow is the first sentence. What I have boxed in purple is the first half of the second sentence. What I have boxed in red is the contrapositive of the second half of the second sentence. *We take the contrapositive because we want "great" for our conditional. We don't want "not great."*
  
  What makes (C) so bad is that it attempts to say that there is a specific conditional relationship between the two necessary conditions for "great." Nothing in the stimulus provided indicates this.
  
  Hope it helps!