Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT130 S4 Q24 Explanation

The genuine creative genius

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Stimulus

The genuine creative genius is someone who is dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs; thus these rare innovators tend to anger the majority. Those who are dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs tend enjoy demonstrating the falsehood of popular viewpoints.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
24.

The conclusion of the argument follows logically if which one of the

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope - Term Shift1% picked this

    People become angry when they are dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to

    This would that it is the genuine creative genius who is angered, but the argument suggests that it is the creative genius who angers the majority.

  2. Correct70% picked this

    People who enjoy demonstrating the falsehood of popular viewpoints anger

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap DF → AM between the enjoyment of demonstrating the falsehood of popular viewpoints and angering the majority.

    Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  3. Out of Scope - Term Shift8% picked this

    People tend to get angry with individuals who hold beliefs not held by a

    There is a difference between people who are dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs and people who hold beliefs not held by a majority of people. The former may end up holding commonly held beliefs even though they are dissatisfied with habitual assent to those beliefs.

  4. Reversed Assumption13% picked this

    People who anger the majority enjoy demonstrating the falsehood of

    This connects the right AM → DF terms but reverses the logic of the argument’s assumption.

  5. Reversed Assumption7% picked this

    People who anger the majority are dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to

    This connects two AM → ~HA terms that would bridge the gap between the first premise and the conclusion but reverses the logic of this assumption.

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