LSAT 140 – Section 2 – Question 26
LSAT 140 - Section 2 - Question 26
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
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Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
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| PT140 S2 Q26 |
+LR
+Exp
| Method of reasoning or descriptive +Method Analogy +An | A
24%
161
B
15%
160
C
4%
159
D
49%
167
E
8%
161
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156 165 174 |
+Hardest | 149.441 +SubsectionMedium |
Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that exact replication is not the only quality viewers value in a painting. He supports this by contending that, if this wasn’t the case, photography would have replaced painting as an art form by now.
Describe Method of Reasoning
The author is supporting a conclusion about people’s preferences in visual art by citing a relevant fact. Note that this is an “is” conclusion, not an “ought” conclusion: the author is talking about what people do like, not what they should like.
A
using a claim about what most people appreciate to support an aesthetic principle
The author’s claim about what people appreciate (i.e. paintings that aren’t exact replicas) is his conclusion; it doesn’t support anything else. Also, it’s not clear that his claims are necessarily about “most” people.
B
appealing to an aesthetic principle to defend the tastes that people have
The author doesn’t defend people’s tastes: he simply describes them.
C
explaining a historical fact in terms of the artistic preferences of people
This gets it backwards: the historical fact (that photography didn’t displace painting) is used to make a conclusion about people’s artistic preferences (more than just replication).
D
appealing to a historical fact to support a claim about people’s artistic preferences
The author cites a historical fact (that photography didn’t displace painting) to justify his claim that people desire more than pure replication in paintings.
E
considering historical context to defend the artistic preferences of people
The author doesn’t defend people’s tastes: he simply describes them. The historical context is used to show what the preferences are, not to defend them.
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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
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Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
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Section 3 - Logical Reasoning
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