To classify a work of art as truly great, it is necessary that the work have both originality and far-reaching influe...

Jonathan Morataya December 29, 2020

Logical force in Answer B

I did not pick and answer B because of the use of logical force words which wasn't present in the stimulus. Instead, I picked answer C because it has the elements of the stimulus but i was confused when the explanation mentioned that no conclusion was shown in stimulus.

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shunhe January 5, 2021

Hi @JonathanMorataya,

Thanks for the question! So I assume by “logical force” words you mean words that signify conditional reasoning. Those words actually are present in the stimulus, they’re just a bit more sneaky. So notice how the word “necessary” shows up in the stimulus. When we have phrases like “it is necessary that” or “it has to be that” or “it must” or things like that, they can indicate—surprise, surprise—necessary conditions. So this would be diagrammed

Classify work of art as truly great —> Originality & Far-reaching influence

And then we can see how (B) follows from this principle.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

Jonathan Morataya January 6, 2021

I meant the word "some" in answer choice B made me erase it since I was looking for stronger words like the ones in the stimulus. does is matter the word some was there?

shunhe January 16, 2021

Nope, the "some" there doesn't need to be diagrammed and isn't important. You can tell because there's no other real use of quantifiers.