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by sandeep_thaparianz » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:00 am
A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins.
To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins.
Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins.
Would be the best supported by those statements?
(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.


[spoiler]OA is D. But Y E is wrong??[/spoiler]
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by vk_vinayak » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:38 am
D is correct. All other options have errors.

E is wrong because of the word everyone.

It would be correct, if we rephrase E as: It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to someone other than professional violinists.
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by patanjali.purpose » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:10 pm
sandeep_thaparianz wrote:A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins.
To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins.
Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins.
Would be the best supported by those statements?
(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.
[spoiler]OA is D. But Y E is wrong??[/spoiler]
E is wrong - BETTER THAN BEST-SOUNDING; argument never says newviolins are better (just says DIFFERNT FROM) than best.
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