Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: If you would have been right to regret something actually happening, then you shouldn't have wanted it to happen. Therefore, many of the fun things people missed out on were things they shouldn't have wanted.

Conclusion: Many pleasures that people missed out on should not have been desired to begin with.

Reasoning: If an event's occurrence would have resulted in justifiable regret, then desiring that event initially was inappropriate.

Analysis: To solve this Sufficient Assumption question, we need to bridge the gap between the premise's trigger and the conclusion's subject. The premise gives us a rule: 'Justifiable Regret' leads to 'Should Not Have Desired.' The conclusion then jumps to 'Many Forgone Pleasures.' To make this logic airtight, we must assume that many of those forgone pleasures would have actually caused justifiable regret if they had occurred. Look for an answer that explicitly connects these two concepts.

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The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Correct Answer
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Assuming that many forgone pleasures would have been justifiably regretted if they had occurred directly triggers the given conditional, allowing the conclusion that many forgone pleasures should not have been desired in the first place. This makes the argument valid.
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