Self-study
Support The genuine creative genius is someone who is dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs; thus Conclusion these rare innovators tend to anger the majority. █████ ███ ███ ████████████ ████ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████████████ ███ ███████████ ███████ █████ █████████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████████
Summary
The author concludes that creative geniuses tend to make people angry, and supports this with a series of conditional statements: because creative geniuses are anti-conformists, anti-conformists seek out controversy, and controversy seekers like to point out when people are wrong.
Missing Connection
The conclusion talks about making people angry, but we don’t discuss that anywhere in the premises. We were given a conditional chain that begins with creative geniuses and ends at demonstrating falsehood. We can make the argument valid if we assume that pointing out when popular beliefs are false is something that angers the majority.
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a
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This answer choice would mean that creative geniuses are angry. We need to conclude that they make other people angry.
b
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This is a direct link from something that we know is a quality of creative geniuses (they enjoy demonstrating falsehood) to angering the majority.
c
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We can’t assume that creative geniuses don’t have popular beliefs. We know that they don’t like habitual assent to popular belief: they don’t like it when people conform without thought. It’s possible that a creative genius would find a popular belief acceptable, given thought.
d
People who anger ███ ████████ █████ █████████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████████
This is switching sufficient and necessary condition. We need something that supports a conclusion about angering the majority. This supports a conclusion about demonstrating falsehood.
e
People who anger ███ ████████ ███ ████████████ ████ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ ████████
Similar to (D), this answer choice switches sufficient and necessary conditions. This supports a conclusion about having dissatisfaction with auto-conformity, or about not angering the majority. We need to support a conclusion about angering the majority.