TMA 02
Part 4: Philosophy

1 - Fill out the argument that Hattie gives in paragraph 5, following the template below.

Premise 1:
How good a painting is depends entirely on what it looks like.

Premise 2:
The quality of a painting doesn't depend on who painted it.
Close, but this premise should read, ‘Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and the copy look exactly the same.’

Conclusion:
A copy of a painting is equally good as the original.
Close – ‘Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and the copy are equally good.

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2 - In paragraph 7, Hattie sets out an argument that she thinks that Jack ought to accept. Fill out the argument following the template below.

Premise 1:
How good a painting is depends entirely on who painted it.

Premise 2:
All of Leonardo's paintings are by Leornardo.ü good

Conclusion:
All of Leonardo's paintings will be equally good.

well done
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3 - Hattie thinks that the conclusion of this argument contradicts a claim that Jack made earlier. What claim was that?

In paragraph 2, Jack states that the Mona Lisa is better than any other painting that Leonardo did.

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4 - Jack responds by rejecting one of the premises of the argument that Hattie gives in paragraph 7. Which premise does he reject and why?

Jack rejects the premise that how good a painting is depends entirely on who painted it because the quality of a painting depends on what it looks like as well.

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5 - In paragraph 9, Hattie draws a comparison between the copy of the Mona Lisa that she has been to see and the copy of Jane Eyre on Jack's bookshelf. What point is she trying to make with this comparison?

She is trying to show that so long as a copy is identical to the original then it is as good because it is just as much the work of the original artist or author as the original. It still draws on the artist’s decisions of composition and use of colour, not the decisions of the copier.

Pad out a bit more. Hattie argues that the paperback of Jane Eyre is the same novel as the manuscript that Bronte wrote out by hand. Both are equally the work of Bronte. By the same token, Hattie suggests that the copy of the Mona Lisa in the local gallery and the original might be considered the same. Both can be considered the work of Leonardo. The local artist has reproduced the work in the same way that the printing press has reproduced the novel. Therefore, the copy is just as good as the original.

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Nigel Warburton. (2005) Unit 4 - Reasoning', An Introduction to Humanities, Form and Reading, Second Edition. pp. 144-172