Flawed Parallel ReasoningDiff: Medium
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: Donna didn't enjoy the art show as much as others, but because the experts said it was the best one in years, the author claims Donna is wrong about her own taste.
Conclusion: Donna's personal opinion about the exhibit's quality is factually wrong.
Reasoning: Professional critics have reached a consensus that the current exhibit is more interesting than previous ones, contradicting Donna's personal experience.
Analysis: This argument fails because it treats a subjective preference—how 'interesting' someone finds an exhibit—as an objective fact that can be proven or disproven. It's a bit like telling someone they are 'wrong' for liking vanilla more than chocolate just because a panel of chefs prefers chocolate. To find the parallel, look for a flaw where a person's individual taste or subjective experience is dismissed as 'false' based on an external standard or expert consensus. The structure should be: Person A prefers X, Experts prefer Y, therefore Person A is incorrect.
Conclusion: Donna's personal opinion about the exhibit's quality is factually wrong.
Reasoning: Professional critics have reached a consensus that the current exhibit is more interesting than previous ones, contradicting Donna's personal experience.
Analysis: This argument fails because it treats a subjective preference—how 'interesting' someone finds an exhibit—as an objective fact that can be proven or disproven. It's a bit like telling someone they are 'wrong' for liking vanilla more than chocolate just because a panel of chefs prefers chocolate. To find the parallel, look for a flaw where a person's individual taste or subjective experience is dismissed as 'false' based on an external standard or expert consensus. The structure should be: Person A prefers X, Experts prefer Y, therefore Person A is incorrect.
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Unlock Full Passage23.Which one of the following arguments contains flawed reasoning that is most similar to the flawed reasoning in the argument above?
Correct Answer
D
D matches. It rejects Loren’s claim about liking the fish’s taste by citing what ‘everyone who knows anything about food’ says about the fish. That’s the same flaw: appealing to experts to negate a person’s subjective taste claim.
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