#21 - Kostman's original painting of Rosati was not a

[Arindom]

Hi,

For this question, I chose ans choice D because the reasoning in the stimulus seems to be that the original painting was not accurate so the reproduction of the painting will also not be accurate. Can you tell me why then ans choice A is correct?

Thanks.

- Arindom

[Nikki Siclunov]

Hi Arindom,

Thanks for your question. I'm afraid your understanding of the original argument differs from what the stimulus actually says, which is probably why you got this question wrong.

The author states that Kostman's portrait of Rosati (the subject of the painting) is not very accurate. From this, the author concludes that your reproduction of Kostman's painting will not be an accurate reproduction of the painting. There’s no reason that this has to be the case. The accuracy of the thing being copied has no bearing on the quality of the copy itself. It is entirely possible that your reproduction of Kostman's painting will be a very accurate reproduction of that painting, whether the painting itself was lousy or not. (The proper conclusion should have been that your reproduction of Kostman's painting will not be a very accurate portrait of Rosati, but that's beside the point.)

Answer choice (D) does not even come close to paralleling this type of logical fallacy: if Joe and Layne are very different from one another, it is reasonable to suspect that one may not be able to imitate the other very well. By contrast, answer choice (A) works because it does exactly what the stimulus does: just as the reproduction of a flawed painting may be an accurate reproduction, so can the audio quality of a terrible speech be superb.

Hope this clears it up!

Thanks,

[karen4300]

Hi! I’m kind of confused with this stimulus and why A is correct. Doesn’t The stimulus talk about the reproduction being inaccurate because kostmans painting was not accurate? How does this have to do with quality? Could someone please explain? And why E) is wrong? Thank you!

Sorry for the grammar mistakes, typing from my phone xD

[Jennifer Janowsky]

Hi, Karen!

The issue with answer choice (E) is that the novels in question are not really meant to be copies of each other, like the paintings in the first example. The reproduction is meant to be the same as the painting in all ways, not just how "good" it is. The novels that are being compared, however, are only said to be similar.

Choice (A), however, deals with a relationship more similar to copies. A tape recording acts as a copy of George's speech. Although "quality" is mentioned, like you said, it is in the context of the sound not the content. The sound "quality" is just a description of how accurately the speech was captured, not how good the speech is. This is the reasoning for (A) being the correct answer.

I hope that is helpful!

[aheartofsunshine]

I am having a hard time with this question. Firstly, I misunderstood the question. When it said Kostman's original painting of Rosati, I did not take Rosati for being a person, rather as a painting itself. So when it follows up with "reproduction of the painting" I took it as being the painting Rosati. I see now it was talking about Kostman's painting. I'm not sure why I read it inaccurately, do you see anything I can do to be more aware next time?

Secondly, I am having a difficult time eliminating answer choice B. Here is my reasoning for the others...is it accurate?

A: Correct because just because one painting (thing or speech) is not good, does not mean a reproduction (audio) of it, is not good.
C: Similar to E..Just because something "resembles", doesn't mean that they are the same color. could mean many different things. this is not the flaw in the stimulus.
D: this centers on the difference of jo being "different".. and different is not what the stimulus was explaining. If this were the flaw in the stimulus, the stimulus would read something like.. Because you are different from Kostman, you will not do a good job reproducing Kostman's paintings.
E: Wrong, because the flaw is describing just because two things are similar doesn't mean they share all the same properties. Not what happened in the stimulus.

Thanks for the help!!

[Christen Hammock]

Hey Sunshine!

The flaw in this question is assuming that inaccuracy is contagious. This, of course, doesn't make sense. If you copy something that is itself inaccurate, that doesn't mean that your version of it was a bad copy.

In the stimulus, the author discusses an original (Rosati), the first "copy" (the painting of Rosati), and the second "copy" (the reproduction of the painting of Rosati). We're going to be looking for an answer choice that comes with a similar structure.

Answer Choice (B) doesn't include two different reproductions or copies—all it does is tell us that an ugly scene, painted accurately, will produce an ugly picture! (B) would fit the stimulus better if it said something like this: "Artist A painted an ugly scene beautifully, which means it was distorted. Thus, Artist B's reproduction of Artist A's painting is also distorted."

Your other answer choice explanations are spot on! You're right that the language in this was a little tricky, since the author is discussing a portrait of a person. That said, don't get too caught up on the individual words, especially in parallel reasoning or flaw questions when the structure of the argument is far more important. Kostman could've painted one of Rosati's paintings or Rosati himself—the argument would have been similarly flawed!

[aheartofsunshine]

Thank you so much! That clears it up.

[elite097]

Error in E isnt clear . WHy is it wrong pls elaborate? Looks the same as passage

[Adam Tyson]

The error in the stimulus is that since the original doesn't look like what it is supposed to represent (it's supposed to be a painting of someone named Rosati, but it doesn't look like Rosati,) the copy of the painting won't look like the original painting. The inaccuracy of the original has no bearing on whether a copy will look like the inaccurate original.

In answer E, there is no element of the original being inaccurate and that inaccuracy somehow affecting the accuracy of the copy. Instead, it makes an unwarranted assumption about what quality the first novel must have had if it won a prize. Who says it was enthralling? The stimulus made no assumptions about the original painting, so this flaw doesn't resemble that one.

[Mo28_28]

Hi,
Could you elaborate why C is incorrect?
I think A shifts from half-truths and misquotes to good sound quality but C on the other hand, says the overall resemblance doesn't mean that they are like each other in any respect. And in the argument we have accuracy as its match.