PT14 S2 Q22
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:59 am
This is the question about Van Gogh and the gallery owner. I selected the wrong answer but cannot understand why it was incorrect. Manhattan LSAT's explanation seems plausible but doesn't really address why I think my answer choice was wrong. I'm not saying there was a printing error or anything, just hoping for an alternate explanation.
So I chose (A) because I thought the evidence the gallery owner provided was hinged upon the agreement of "experts" (some, all, not clear). I thought it would be possible for the experts to be wrong about the brush strokes, colors, etc. Isn't the only way to be 100% certain to ask the painter himself? Even then, he could lie. So, (A).
But the correct answer was (D). The gallery owner provides no evidence that someone else didn't paint the painting. Except he did. It was just shitty evidence.
So I guess I'm stuck on the brush strokes, colors, etc. mentioned by the gallery owner as not counting as evidence that Van Gogh authored the painting.
So I chose (A) because I thought the evidence the gallery owner provided was hinged upon the agreement of "experts" (some, all, not clear). I thought it would be possible for the experts to be wrong about the brush strokes, colors, etc. Isn't the only way to be 100% certain to ask the painter himself? Even then, he could lie. So, (A).
But the correct answer was (D). The gallery owner provides no evidence that someone else didn't paint the painting. Except he did. It was just shitty evidence.
So I guess I'm stuck on the brush strokes, colors, etc. mentioned by the gallery owner as not counting as evidence that Van Gogh authored the painting.