RC Question 6 Explanation, by LSATHacks
DISCUSSION: You should eliminate the wrong answers by finding them in the passage. If you don’t have time to do that, you need to work on skimming quickly to find information, and building a mental map of the passage.
It’s possible to be 100% certain about these questions. And you can get better at doing it quickly; it’s a learnable skill.
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- Lines 38-40.
- Lines 8-11
- This is implied by lines 45-47, or 5-11. New artistic styles usually mean new techniques.
- This is the hardest answer choice. Lines 15-17 say that the artists predicted new developments in the arts. Artists make new developments in the arts, so this means they anticipated later artists.
- CORRECT. The opposing critic believes this, but the author of the passage disagrees. The author was interested in aesthetics, not prophecy.
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Hi,
What exactly would be the example of choice D? It seems to me that there is no example of “the ability to anticipate later artists” in the passage.
One can easily think there is no where in the passage talking about future artists and choose D. What is the best way to notice how far should we go in interpreting the statements?
Thanks
See lines 15-17: “anticipating future developments in the arts”
Future artists are the ones making future developments in the arts. You can make commonsense inferences like “artistic developments are made by artists”
I understand the inference for answer choice D, but it still feels like a huge leap, and one that the LSAT would normally punish someone for. And although I knew that the author was in disagreement with answer choice E, its overall use in the passage caused me to think that maybe I had missed something, and by thinking I saw a clear mistake in answer choice D (I interpreted the ability to anticipate artists to mean an ability to anticipate the emergence of specific, individual artists, which is very different and much more specific than anticipating a general development in the arts), I picked D over E.
Any tips for not getting hung up on seemingly important, but clearly insignificant impurities in answer choices?
Thank you so much