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by italian7745 » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:14 pm
The stated goal of the government's funding program for the arts is to encourage the creation of works of artistic excellence. Senator Beton claims, however, that a government-funded artwork can never reflect the independent artistic conscience of the artist because artists, like anyone else who accepts financial support, will inevitably try to please those who control the distribution of that support. Senator Beton concludes that government funding of the arts not only is a burden on taxpayers but also cannot lead to the creation of works of true artistic excellence.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which Senator Beton's argument is based?

(A) Most taxpayers have little or no interest in the creation of works of true artistic excellence.
(B) Government funding of the arts is more generous than other financial support most artists receive.
(C) Distribution of government funds for the arts is based on a broad agreement as to what constitutes artistic excellence.
(D) Once an artist has produced works of true artistic excellence, he or she will never accept government funding.
(E) A contemporary work of art that does not reflect the independent artistic conscience of the artist cannot be a work of true artistic excellence.
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by getso » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:28 pm
OA E
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by heshamelaziry » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:35 pm
IMO E
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by gmatv09 » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:38 am
Senators claim - a government-funded artwork can never reflect the independent artistic conscience of the artist

hence IMO E
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by tanviet » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:48 am
Asumption must be

1, in context of evidence
2.support conclusion
3,pass negation test

A, choice which pass negation test but is not in context of evidence is attractive but wrong

B, choice which support conclusion but dose not pass negation test is attractive but wrong. this choice is strengthener

My friends, remember 123AB for assumption question. this save your life.

come back to the discussed question

E pass negation test. This means negation of E weaken the arguement. But E is not in context of evidence and wrong

E show the case A above.
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by tanviet » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:51 am
Sory, A pass negation test but not is in context of evidence

A show the case A above.

E is correct.
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by viju9162 » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:52 am
I will go with E

duongthang : When you said "remember 123AB for assumption question", AB must be a typo error. Thanks for letting know the points to be remembered.

It will really help to solve assumption questions.

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by Testluv » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:17 pm
italian7745 wrote:The stated goal of the government's funding program for the arts is to encourage the creation of works of artistic excellence. Senator Beton claims, however, that a government-funded artwork can never reflect the independent artistic conscience of the artist because artists, like anyone else who accepts financial support, will inevitably try to please those who control the distribution of that support. Senator Beton concludes that government funding of the arts not only is a burden on taxpayers but also cannot lead to the creation of works of true artistic excellence.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which Senator Beton's argument is based?

(A) Most taxpayers have little or no interest in the creation of works of true artistic excellence.
(B) Government funding of the arts is more generous than other financial support most artists receive.
(C) Distribution of government funds for the arts is based on a broad agreement as to what constitutes artistic excellence.
(D) Once an artist has produced works of true artistic excellence, he or she will never accept government funding.
(E) A contemporary work of art that does not reflect the independent artistic conscience of the artist cannot be a work of true artistic excellence.
The argument can be reduced to this paraphrase: "because government-funded artwork can't reflect independent artistic conscience, government funding cannot lead to creation of works with artistic excellence" or "because no ind. art consc., no artistic excellence."

This is actually a common form of argument: "because no A, no B". In this kind of argument, the arguer is assuming that A is necessary for B. We can use the denial test to see this: if A wasn't necessary for B, then the argument (that no A means no B) falls apart. Thus, the argument's reasoning depends on A being necessary for B. Here, the "A" is independent artistic conscience and the "B" is (true) artistic excellence. So, the author is assuming that independent artistic consicence is necessary for (true) artistic excellence. If we went into the answer choices with this prediction and then scanned for a match, then choice E clearly matches.
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