If a novelist is popular he or she can vividly imagine large numbers of characters, each with a personality and attit...

shunhe February 18, 2020

Hi @sprozes,

Thanks for the question! Note that the second sentence of the stimulus tells us that if a novelist is popular, then they will be capable of empathizing with people who have goals completely different from their own. Now notice, this can be diagrammed as

Novelist popular —> Can empathize with people who have goals completely different from their own

And if we take the contrapositive of this statement

~Can empathize with people who have goals completely different from their own —> ~Novelist popular

Which means that (C) must be false, based on the contrapositive.


Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

GabbyS August 9, 2021

Why not A?

Blair May 31, 2022

^^^^^??????

Emil-Kunkin June 28, 2022

Hi,

The statements are only about popular authors. We know nothing about authors who are not popular. We also do not know what makes authors popular. We know that all popular authors share the traits mentioned, but we do not know that everyone who has those traits is guaranteed to be popular. So, we cannot prove that A cannot happen.