Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: You can't be happy without trust because trust is the only way to connect with people, and without connections, you're just lonely.

Conclusion: The ability to trust others is a requirement for being happy.

Reasoning: Trust is necessary for meaningful emotional connections, and a lack of these connections leads to feelings of isolation.

Analysis: The therapist provides a chain: Trust → Emotional Connection → No Isolation. However, the conclusion introduces a new term: 'Happiness.' To make this argument logically airtight, we must bridge the gap between 'not feeling isolated' and 'being happy.' We need a premise that guarantees that if you are isolated (or lack connections), you cannot be happy. Look for an answer that explicitly links the absence of isolation or the presence of emotional connection to the possibility of happiness.

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Which one of the following, if assumed, allows the conclusion of the therapist's argument to be properly inferred?

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Adding “No one who is feeling isolated can feel happy” gives Isolated → Not happy. Now Not trust → No connection → Isolated → Not happy, which contraposes to Happy → Trust—exactly the conclusion that trust is essential to happiness.
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