Flawed ReasoningDiff: Medium

Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: The author claims critics are wrong about sappy movies being bad just because they're bored of them, comparing it to someone getting tired of a common food seasoning.

Conclusion: Movie critics are incorrect in their belief that sentimentality reduces a film's aesthetic value.

Reasoning: The critics' preference is dismissed because it is supposedly based on their overexposure to sentimentality rather than its inherent quality.

Analysis: The author commits a source fallacy by attacking the reason critics hold a belief rather than addressing the belief itself. Even if critics are biased by overexposure, that doesn't prove sentimentality is actually good or aesthetically valuable. The argument fails to provide any evidence for the aesthetic value of sentimentality, focusing instead on why the critics are supposedly biased. Look for an answer that describes this failure to address the substance of the critics' claim.

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The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument

Correct Answer
D
D captures the genetic fallacy here: the author concludes the critics’ view is false solely on the basis of how they came to hold it, not by showing the view itself is false.
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