LSAT 156 – Section 4 – Question 07

LSAT 156 - Section 4 - Question 07

July 2020

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT156 S4 Q07
+LR
Must be true +MBT
A
78%
159
B
1%
148
C
7%
149
D
12%
149
E
2%
143
131
141
152
 +Easier 147.09 +SubsectionMedium

A truly visual art form—for example, painting—is one in which time plays no essential role. Though it takes time to look at a painting, there is no fixed order in which one must look at its parts, and no fixed amount of time one must spend examining it. In contrast, most art forms, such as poetry and music, are essentially temporal; that is, they require performance, which means they must be experienced in a fixed order and over a roughly fixed amount of time. Poetry, for instance, though often written down and thus seemingly a visual art, actually must be performed, even if the performance is only a silent reading to oneself.

Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences
Temporal art forms must be experienced in a fixed order and over a fixed amount of time.

Temporal art forms are not truly visual.

Truly visual art forms are not temporal.

Truly visual art forms do not require performance

Most art forms are not truly visual.

A
Truly visual art forms do not essentially involve performance.
Must be true. As shown below, if we take the contrapositive of the conditional chain, we see that a truly visual art form does not require performance.

B
Poetry is less like music than it is like painting.
Could be false. We don’t have enough information to compare how similar these art forms are.
C
Spatiality and temporality are mutually exclusive components of art forms.
Could be false. The stimulus does not indicate that spatiality and temporality can never coexist in art.
D
Art forms that must be examined for an extended period of time in order to be understood are essentially temporal.
Could be false. (D) introduces topics that are not included in the stimulus, like understanding (rather than experiencing) art and extended (rather than fixed) periods of time.
E
Anything capable of being performed is either musical or poetic, or both musical and poetic.
Could be false. We know that all performances must be experienced in a fixed order and over a roughly fixed amount of time, but we don’t know that all performances are either musical or poetic––music and poetry are just referenced as two possible examples of performance.

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