Logical Reasoning

PT130 · S4 · Q24 The genuine creative genius

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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.

Evidence

The genuine creative genius is someone who CG → ~HA is dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs.

Those who are ~HA → SC dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs tend to seek out controversy.

Controversy seekers SC → DF enjoy demonstrating the falsehood of popular viewpoints.

Conclusion

These rare innovators CG → AM tend to anger the majority.

Evaluate

The argument assumes DF → AM that those who enjoy demonstrating the falsehood of popular viewpoints tend to anger the majority.

24.

The conclusion of the argument follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. People become angry when they

    Out of Scope - Term Shift

    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.

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    People who enjoy demonstrating the

    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.

    71% picked this

  3. People tend to get angry

    Out of Scope - Term Shift

    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.

    8% picked this

  4. People who anger the majority

    Reversed Assumption

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

    13% picked this

  5. People who anger the majority

    Reversed Assumption

    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.

    7% picked this

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