Strengthen with Sufficient Premise Questions - - Question 22

Many artists claim that art critics find it is easier to write about art that they dislike than to write about art th...

Paytonjd April 22, 2023

Sufficient vs necessary

I got the correct answer, but I don't see how it could be *sufficient* to, by itself, guaranty the the conclusion. However, I do see why it's *necessary* for the conclusion; it just seems like it needs to be combined with the other premise (in the passage) to arrive at the conclusion. How is the correct answer a super premise? If someone tells me that "The greatest works of art are works that inevitably satisfy all critics," how can I -just from that- conclude that "most art criticism is devoted to works other than the greatest works of art"? I would also need to know the other premise (that "most art criticism is devoted to art works that fail to satisfy the critic") in order to conclude that.

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Emil-Kunkin April 25, 2023

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by super premise, but I think you're confused about what a sufficient assumption is. A sufficient assumption is a premise that, if added, would make the argument correct. It does not need to guarantee the conclusion alone, it needs to guarantee the conclusion alongside the other premises.