PT157.S3.Q19

PrepTest 157 - Section 3 - Question 19

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The Common Flaw: Sufficiency and Necessity

This stimulus confuses sufficiency and necessity. It tries to deny the sufficient condition to infer the necessary condition can’t happen. There's an extra conditional link in the middle, making it a conditional chain, but the core flaw remains.

Premise 1: If a film is accepted, then [distributor buys], and then [backers get $$$].
Premise 2: This film was not accepted.
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Conclusion: Backers won’t get $$$.

Here’s the formal logic:

P1: Accepted → Buys → Recoup
P2: /Accepted
________
Con: /Recoup
P1: A → B → C
P2: /A
________
Con: /C

The answer choices are all right or wrong based on whether they exactly match this template.

You might have noticed that whereas premise 1 talks about distributors at the festival, premise 2 talks about distributors generally. You might be wondering if it's okay to connect the two? The answer is yes because the argument here assumes that being a distributor at the festival means that you're a distributor, which is perfectly reasonable.

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19.

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a

If a film ███ █ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ █ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ███ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ██ ████ ███ ████ █ ████ ██████

b

If a film ████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ██████████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ █ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ █ ████ ███ ██ █████████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ████ ███ ████ █ ████ ███ ██ █████████

c

If a film ██ ████████ ██ █ ████████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ █ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █ ████████ ███████

d

If a film ██ █ ███ ██████ ████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ███ ██ ██████ ██ █ ████ ████████ ██ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ██ █████ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ███ ███ █████████ ███ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ██████

e

If a film ███ █ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ █████████ █ ███████ ████████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ████ ████ ███ █ ███ ███████ ██ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ██ █████

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