Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: If you don't have an agent, your script is tossed. If your formatting is wrong, your script is tossed. Therefore, if you have an agent and your formatting is perfect, you're in the clear.

Conclusion: A script that is both agent-submitted and correctly formatted will definitely be kept by the studio.

Reasoning: The studio's readers discard any script that lacks an agent or has incorrect formatting.

Analysis: This is a classic case of 'Mistaken Negation.' The premises tell us two ways to get rejected, but they don't promise that those are the *only* ways to get rejected. A script could have an agent and perfect formatting but still be discarded because the story is terrible. To match this flaw, look for an argument that takes two requirements for success and incorrectly concludes that meeting those requirements guarantees success.

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24.

Which one of the following exhibits a flawed pattern of reasoning that most closely parallels that in the argument above?

Correct Answer
C
C matches the flaw: “exercise → improve” and “quit smoking → improve,” so concluding “not exercise ∧ continue smoking → not improve” wrongly assumes those are the only ways to improve.
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