LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 21

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 21

December 2003

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT127 S2 Q21	+LR	Point at issue: disagree +Disagr Conditional Reasoning +CondR Link Assumption +LinkA	A 19% 162 B 56% 167 C 15% 162 D 5% 157 E 5% 159	151 162 173	+Hardest	146.61 +SubsectionMedium

Tania: A good art critic is not fair in the ordinary sense; it is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a truly unbiased opinion. Since art is a passion, good criticism of art cannot be separated from emotion.

Monique: Art is not simply a passion. The best art critics passionately engage with the artwork, but render their criticism only after shedding all of their biases and consulting general principles of aesthetics.

Speaker 1 Summary

Tania concludes that a good art critic isn’t fair. This is because an unbiased (fair) critic needs to be uninterested in art, but good art criticism requires emotion (which Tania is implying requires interest in the art).

Speaker 2 Summary

Monique asserts that the best art critics shed all their biases before delivering their criticism. She acknowledges that art is a passion, but says it’s not only a passion.

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree over whether good art critics can be unbiased. Tania thinks they can’t. Monique thinks that can.

art is not simply a passion

Tania doesn’t have an opinion. She says that art is a passion. But we don’t know whether she thinks it’s more than just a passion.

good art criticism is sometimes unbiased

This is a point of disagreement. Tania thinks this is not possible, because good art criticism requires emotion, which she implies involves being interested in art. Monique thinks a good art critic can be unbiased.

art critics should not feel emotion toward artworks

Neither speaker has an opinion. Although both recognize that good art critics do feel passion toward art, we don’t know whether they think critics should or should not feel that passion.

fairness generally requires minimizing the influence of bias

Neither speaker has an opinion. Although Tania discusses fairness in the context of art criticism, we don’t know what she thinks about fairness in other contexts. Similarly, Monique discusses unbiased criticism, but we don’t know what she thinks about fairness generally.

the passionate engagement of the art critic with the artwork is the most important aspect of art criticism

Neither speaker has an opinion. We don’t know what either person thinks is the “most” important part of art criticism.

LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 21

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 21

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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

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