Practice question · True or false
Formal analysis and interpretation are two names for the same operation, since describing an organisation already says what it does.
Hints
- Ask whether two people could agree on the first and disagree on the second.
- One points at things; the other makes a claim about them.
Show the answer
False
Why
False, and collapsing them is the commonest fault in a crit. Two viewers can agree completely that the darks form a rising triangle and disagree entirely about what that triangle does. Keeping the two separate is what makes the second disagreement locatable rather than a stalemate about taste.
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