Self-study
Support If the play were successful, it would be adapted as a movie or revived at the Decade Festival. ███ ██ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ████████████ ████████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████ █ █████ ███ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ █████████
Summarize Argument
The argument concludes that the play will neither become a movie nor get revived at the Decade festival. This is supported by the fact that it would become a movie or get revived at the festival if it were successful, but it’s not.
Identify and Describe Flaw
This is a cookie-cutter example of mistaking a sufficient condition for a necessary condition. The play being successful is sufficient for it becoming a movie or getting revived, but the argument never establishes that success is necessary for either of those. There’s no reason to say that the play can’t become a movie or get revived just because it’s unsuccessful.
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The argument's reasoning is flawed ███████ ███ ████████
a
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This is saying that the argument should conclude that the play cannot both become a movie and get revived at the same time. However, the play’s lack of success isn’t sufficient to prove this either, so (A)’s version of the conclusion is just as flawed.
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This is irrelevant since “unsuccessful” is always enough to fail the sufficient condition, regardless of the specific reason why it was unsuccessful. We already know as a premise that the play was unsuccessful.
c
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The argument never discusses the play’s aesthetic worth, so it doesn’t equate aesthetic worth to anything.
d
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This is descriptively inaccurate since the argument never claims that the play can’t become anything else, only that it will neither become a movie nor get revived at the festival.
e
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This describes how the argument fails to consider other possible ways in which the play could become a movie or get revived. Success is not established as a necessary condition, so the play being unsuccessful doesn’t justify the conclusion.