QUESTION TEXT: Monica: The sculpture commissioned for our town…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Hector concludes that the statue should be removed, if it’s true that the public dislikes the statue.
REASONING: If the public dislikes the statue, then they don’t feel they are benefitting. The statue should benefit the public.
ANALYSIS: It’s possible the statue benefits the public even if they don’t feel they are benefitted. There’s a different between reality and what people feel.
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- This can be ruled out for being too broad. Hector is talking about a statue, while this talks about every issue the public has an opinion on, including, for example, nuclear war.
- Tempting, but Hector hedges his opinion by saying “If public opinion…is what you say”
- Hector doesn’t seem to care about artistic merit, so this isn’t relevant to his argument.
- Same as C.
- CORRECT. If the public is wrong and they actually do benefit from the statue, then Hector has no evidence. His argument depended on the idea that the statue needs to benefit the public.
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