LSAT 158 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q24

LR Question 24 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Filmmaker: Many people feel that independent films …

QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption

CONCLUSION: Most independent films don’t have absolute artistic integrity.

REASONING: Profits affect the filmmaker’s artistic decisions.

ANALYSIS: The argument tells us that profit influences artistic decisions. Then it jumps to saying the films don’t have absolute integrity.

That jump is the gap. Why does profit influence automatically mean no absolute integrity?

For the conclusion to follow with certainty, we need a very strong rule: any influence from profit is enough to eliminate absolute integrity.

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1. This defines integrity, but doesn’t tell us how profit affects it.
2. CORRECT. This gives the exact rule needed: if profit affects any decisions, then there is no absolute integrity. That makes the conclusion follow directly.
3. Irrelevant. There’s no discussion of individuals versus groups.
4. This is related to the common belief in the first sentence, but conventionality isn’t doing any work in the filmmaker’s argument. His argument only concerns profits.
5. Same as D. The filmmaker’s argument is about profit, not conventionality.