Logical reasoning PrepTest 122 · Section 4 · Question 10

Incorrect. While this answer seems to align with our second conditional, there's a key shift. That conditional is about the capability of feeling an emotion, not actually having experienced it. Therefore, this answer features a subtle shift in terminology that means it's not supported by the stimulus.

Incorrect. The argument doesn't use similarly comparative language ("greatest", "deepest"), nor does it establish that these elements are proportionally related, so this answer is unsupported.

Incorrect. This answer is an illegal reversal of the first conditional statement.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Facts

Question Type:
Must Be True

Stimulus Summary:
Great art → Express deep emotion
not Artist feel emotion → not Express emotion

Answer Anticipation:
This stimulus features two conditional statements. However, they don't directly share a term—the first talks about deep emotions, whereas the second talks about emotions generally—so how can we draw an inference from them?

While they don't directly share a term, there is a connection between the two necessary conditions. While not all emotions are deep, all deep emotions are emotions. In order to see how we can use this, let's take the contrapositive of the first sentence to see how they work together:
not Artist feel emotion → not Express emotion
not Express deep emotion → not Great art

If we want to reach a conclusion that a certain work of art is great, it would need to be shown that it doesn't express a deep emotion. And since an artist can't express an emotion that they can't feel, if the artist can't feel deep emotions, then they can't make great art.

This leaves open many possible phrasings for correct answers, but knowing that these two statements can be connected together should help us in analyzing the answer choices.

Answer Explanation:
If computers can't feel any emotion, then they can't feel deep emotion. And if the creator of a work of art can't experience deep emotion, then they can't make art that expresses that emotion (conditional #2), so they can't make great art (conditional #1). This answer is supported by the stimulus and is thus correct.

Key Takeaway:
Sometimes, terms in two conditionals that aren't exactly the same can still allow logical inferences to be made if there's an inherent relationship between them—e.g., all deep emotions are emotions. Be careful, though, as these relationships are often one-way streets—e.g., not all emotions are deep emotions.

Incorrect. The stimulus never discusses great artists, just great artwork.