Self-study
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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.
7.
If the statements above are █████ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ██ █████
a
Truly visual art █████ ██ ███ ███████████ ███████ ████████████
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 ████ █████ ████ ██ ██ ████ █████████
Could be false. We don’t have enough information to compare how similar these art forms are.
c
Spatiality and temporality ███ ████████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████
Could be false. The stimulus does not indicate that spatiality and temporality can never coexist in art.
d
Art forms that ████ ██ ████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████████ █████████
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 █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ███████ ███ ███████
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.