Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: Even though people think indie movies are 'pure,' the need to make money forces filmmakers to make choices that compromise that purity.

Conclusion: Most independent films lack absolute artistic integrity.

Reasoning: Independent filmmakers need to make a profit, and this financial necessity influences the artistic choices made during the creation of most of these films.

Analysis: The argument identifies a factor (profit motive) that affects artistic decisions and concludes that this destroys 'absolute integrity.' The gap here is the definition of 'absolute integrity.' The filmmaker assumes that any influence from profit-seeking is incompatible with total artistic purity. To make this conclusion logically sound, we need a 'bridge' premise that explicitly states that if an artistic decision is influenced by the need for profit, the work cannot have absolute integrity.

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The filmmaker's conclusion is properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

Correct Answer
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It supplies exactly the needed bridge: if any artistic decision is influenced by profit need, the work lacks absolute integrity. Combined with ‘profit need affects artistic decisions in most independent films,’ it validly yields the conclusion.
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