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ID: LSAT-LR-065
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Curator: We are told that the portrait cannot be by Vasari because Vasari never painted on copper. But the only reason anyone believes Vasari never painted on copper is that no copper painting by him is known -- and this portrait, if it is his, is one. The objection assumes what it sets out to prove.

The curator's argument proceeds by

Aarguing that attribution based on the materials a painter used is a less reliable guide than attribution based on style, and should yield to style in a disputed case

Bquestioning the competence of those who attributed the portrait and their standing to settle it

Coffering evidence that Vasari painted on copper on other occasions, which would show the claim the objection rests on to be false whatever this portrait is

Dshowing that the only evidence for the objection's premise presupposes the very conclusion the objection was brought to establish

Econceding that the objection has some force and showing that it nevertheless does not settle the question of who painted the portrait

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