Logical reasoning PrepTest 107 · Section 4 · Question 22

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Cannot Be True Questions

Chorale prelude --most--> Written for organ

Great chorale prelude for organ --most--> Bach

Master artist → ~Create to express own feelings

Bach → Master artist

The first big thing to note here? How little of the stimulus we summarized! And, as we talk through why and what we have diagrammed, we’ll see that we’re going to narrow it down even more.

And it all starts from the question type - Cannot be True. When dealing with this question type, we need to find an answer that contradicts information in the stimulus. And it’s much easier to contradict stronger statements. Weak statements can be contradicted essentially only with a direct negation of it - the only way to contradict, “It sometimes rains,” is to say, “It never rains.” However, strong statements - conditionals, in particular - can be contradicted by counterexample, or statements that establish sufficient conditions but deny necessary ones.

With that noted, we can work through the stimulus. We start with two most statements. However, they don’t overlap - the first is about all chorale preludes, whereas the second is about only great chorale preludes written for organ. Afterwards, we get a whole bunch of some statements, and information about an individual prelude, which is unlikely to be contradicted in the correct answer.

Then, we finally get some conditionals. All master artists don’t create to express their own feelings, and Bach was a master artist. These two conditionals, put together, allow us to infer that Bach didn’t create to express his own feelings. The correct answer will likely contradict that statement, as the only strong inference we can draw.