Q15 - Lea: Contemporary art has become

[b91302310]

I am wondering why answer choice (D) is superior to (B). As Susan states "most" of the smaller galleries and answer choice (D) only brings up "some" smllar galleries, is it possible that this difference in quantity has an effect on Susan's standpoint?

Could anyone explain the difference between answer choice (B) and (D)? Thanks!

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Good question.

The short answer why answer choice (B) is not correct is that Susan never addresses what is true for most art galleries, she only addresses what is true for most smaller galleries.

If you compare answer choices (B) and (D) you can see that answer choice (B) discusses art galleries in general, and answer choice (D) discusses smaller art galleries.

In order to find the point of disagreement between to characters, it must be the case that each character has an explicit (and sometimes even an implicit) opinion on the claim. We simply don't know what Susan thinks is true for most art galleries in general.

We know that Lea thinks that contemporary art is bereft of creativity (and notice she says this is evident by a visit to any gallery, that includes smaller galleries as well), whereas Susan says that one can still find spontaneous, innovative new artwork in smaller art galleries. So they would disagree about whether some small art galleries still exhibit creative new artwork - answer choice (D).

(A) is not addressed by either Susan or Lea. This answer choice is too broad relating to art in general rather than contemporary art and Susan only addresses what is true for smaller galleries.
(B) is not addressed by Susan who only discusses smaller galleries.
(C) is something Lea agrees with, but Susan doesn't address.
(E) is addressed by Lea but not Susan.

I hope this helps you see this one a bit more clearly. There's a subtle shift in language in the answer choices in this question, which is so typical of the LSAT writers. I agree that degree modifiers like "some" and "most" are really important but in this case so to is the adjective "smaller" galleries!

[geverett]

I got this one right on the PT because I was able to eliminate the other four answers quickly. However, I could not understand in the moment why D was right because while Lea uses the word contemporary in her argument Susan uses the word new in her argument. When I was reading it I just thought "I don't see the point of disagreement because Lea is talking about contemporary art, but Susan is talking about innovative new artwork." Of course new and contemporary can be used interchangeably, but I did not see that in the moment. Good thing we work from clearly wrong to the right answer choices.

[u2manish]

Hello all (Staff at Manhattan),

I was wondering if this question can be venn diagrammed. Please throw in your thoughts on how to go about it?
Best,
M

[tzyc]

Are spontaneous, innovative new art work and creative art work the same thing? (talked in each debator)
In my understanding&in my dictionary...
Spontaneous≒volunter, innovative≒progressive,
creative≒original
So I was not sure when I did this problem, and thought maybe I should not think spontaneous, innovative≒creative?(think them equal)
Does this kind of word shift occur a lot in disagreement question? And it's allowed for disagreement question??
Usually we should be careful about term shift right??

Thank you.