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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
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Con: /RecoupP1: A → B → C
P2: /A
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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.
Analysis by MichaelWright
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