Exam LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning topic 1 question 369 discussion

Actual exam question from Test Prep's LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning

Question #: 369
Topic #: 1

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The recent cleaning of frescoes in the Sistine Chapel has raised important aesthetic issues. Art historians are now acutely aware that the colors of the works they study may differ from the works' original colors. Art historians have concluded from this that interpretations of the frescoes that seemed appropriate before the frescoes' restoration may no longer be appropriate.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the art historians' reasoning?

A. The appropriateness of an interpretation of an artwork is relative to the general history of the period in which the interpretation is made.
B. The restoration of an artwork may alter it such that it will have colors that the artist did not intend for it to have.
C. The colors of an artwork are relevant to an appropriate interpretation of that work.
D. Art historians are the best judges of the value of an artwork.
E. Interpretations of an artwork are appropriate if they originated during the period when the work was created.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
The art historians feel that in light of the cleaned and hence differently-colored Sistine Chapel frescoes, previous interpretations may no longer be valid. To justify such a position, it would have to be true that the colors within those frescoes have some pertinence to the frescoes interpretation. Correct choice C. generalizes from that specific case to a general principle to which the art historians argument is perfectly applicable.

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