Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: The author argues that if you trust people, you'll view hard work as a fun challenge because trusting people is linked to the self-confidence needed for that mindset.

Conclusion: People who trust others view difficult tasks as challenges rather than threats.

Reasoning: Confidence leads people to see tasks as challenges, and people who do not believe others distrust them possess this confidence.

Analysis: This is a classic conditional logic chain with a missing link. The argument flows from 'Not believing others distrust you' to 'Confidence' to 'Challenge.' However, the conclusion starts with 'People who trust others.' The gap is between 'trusting others' and 'not believing others distrust you.' To make this argument bulletproof, we need an assumption that bridges these two concepts—specifically, that if you trust others, you necessarily do not believe they distrust you.

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

Correct Answer
C
Assuming that people who tend to trust others do not believe that others distrust them completes the chain to the conclusion, making the inference valid.
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