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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=10843)
The correct answer choice is (C)
To respond to this Concept Reference question, it is valuable to know the structure of the passage in order to quickly locate the subject of this question. The author discusses Weiner in the second paragraph, and beginning on line 21, specifies that Western ontology is “one based on realism, immediacy, and self-expression.”
Answer choice (A): This is not one of the listed essential characteristics of Western ontology, so this choice fails the Fact Test.
Answer choice (B): Weiner believes it is naive to attribute a paramount truth value to videos simply because they are filmed by the indigenous people. This is not an essential characteristic of Western ontology, though, so this choice should be ruled out of contention.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. As prephrased above, self-expression is an essential characteristic of Western ontology.
Answer choice (D): The author begins the passage by observing that visual anthropologists have spent decades striving to eliminate the colonial gaze from their films. This is not, however, an essential characteristic of Western ontology from Weiner’s perspective.
Answer choice (E): Weiner believes that it is naive of anthropologists to attach a paramount truth value to films based on the fact that they are made by the indigenous people themselves. This is not one of the listed essential characteristics of Western ontology prephrased above, and it is not the right answer to this Must Be True question.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=10843)
The correct answer choice is (C)
To respond to this Concept Reference question, it is valuable to know the structure of the passage in order to quickly locate the subject of this question. The author discusses Weiner in the second paragraph, and beginning on line 21, specifies that Western ontology is “one based on realism, immediacy, and self-expression.”
Answer choice (A): This is not one of the listed essential characteristics of Western ontology, so this choice fails the Fact Test.
Answer choice (B): Weiner believes it is naive to attribute a paramount truth value to videos simply because they are filmed by the indigenous people. This is not an essential characteristic of Western ontology, though, so this choice should be ruled out of contention.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. As prephrased above, self-expression is an essential characteristic of Western ontology.
Answer choice (D): The author begins the passage by observing that visual anthropologists have spent decades striving to eliminate the colonial gaze from their films. This is not, however, an essential characteristic of Western ontology from Weiner’s perspective.
Answer choice (E): Weiner believes that it is naive of anthropologists to attach a paramount truth value to films based on the fact that they are made by the indigenous people themselves. This is not one of the listed essential characteristics of Western ontology prephrased above, and it is not the right answer to this Must Be True question.