QUESTION TEXT: The writers of the television show Ambitions…
QUESTION TYPE: Parallel Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The characters will not be developed in a more realistic manner.
REASONING: The writers want to maximize their audience, and making realistic characters will shrink their viewership.
ANALYSIS:
The argument hare follows this structure:
If X, then Y.
But Y is not true, so X is not true.
We will hunt for an answer that matches this format. We specifically need the necessary condition (Y) to be untrue, and for the conclusion to be that the sufficient condition (X) is also untrue.
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- This does not match. This is more like:
If X, then Y.
X is true, so Y is true. - This isn’t the same.
If X, then Y.
X is not true, so Y is not true. - This is a very different argument. This one is more of a personal argument – “don’t blame them if you couldn’t do better”. It very loosely might appear to match the format, but the reasoning is different.
- CORRECT. This matches our format exactly.
- This is a bit more of a complex argument that doesn’t match the stimulus’ format.
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