Identify the Assumption

Question 1

When answering assumption question , we must ask ourself

Answer 1

1) what is the missing information
2) What piece of information is unstated by the author yet must be true in order for the evidence presented to effectively support the conclusion

Question 2

Assumption Question

Answer 2

• The argument depends on
• The conclusion above would be more reasonably drawn if which of the following were inserted into the argument as an additional premise?
• The argument depends on assuming which of the following?
• The argument above logically depends on which of the following?
• In order for the conclusion to be true, which of the following must be true?

Question 3

Identify the assumption Question

Answer 3

1) Carefully read and undertsand the passage
2) Read the question stem and identify what it is asking you to do
3) Go back to the passage and determine exactly what the conclusion of the argument is
4) Identify how the conclusion is supported
5) Remove choices that are rather obviously not assumptions intergal to the argument
6) Choose the answer choice that is most clearly an assumption to the argument

Question 4

Authors of the arugument assume that they are

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correct and they assume that their aruguments are sound and logical

Question 5

Authors of the arugument

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have considered every varibale that could affect their arguments and that after considering those variables, they’ve reached conclusions that are supported by their evidence

Question 6

Presence of malicous variable

Answer 6

A malicious variable is a varibale that an author has failed to consider in the constrution of her argument and that enters into the equation and spoils that argument, rendering the argument sound
–> When an author presents a plan, she assumes that there are no malicious varibales that wil cause the plan not to work

Question 7

When author set forths an argument, plan, proposal or course of action

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she assumes that there will be no offsetting factors that will somehow render that argument, plan, proposal or course of action invalid

Question 8

When an author makes cause and effect

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she assumes that her cause and effect claim is correct; she assumes there could not be an alternative explanation for the observed events
-> She posits that the cause and effect she has described as the only possible cause of the effect

Question 9

When author assumes that a plan will not work or that some outcome will not occur

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she must assume that there is not some other way or some other path (that she has failed to consider) via which the plan could work or via which the outcome could occur

Question 10

In assumption questions, argument may depend on the assumption that an alternative path to an outcome

Answer 10

is not available

Question 11

When author puts forth a plan

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she belives that the plan or course of action will work as planned

Question 12

The argument about topics such as plans, predictions, or explanations can include

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• elements that are from different time periods
• when author uses data from one time period to support a conclusion about a different time period, she assumes that data can actually be used to support her conclusion. She assumes that things have not changed or will not change over time in a way that would invalidate her conclusion

Question 13

Assumption is a piece of information that must be true for the logic of an argument to work, if we were to find an assumption upon which an argument depends to be false

Answer 13

the argument could no longer work
-> If we think that something is necessary, then try to get rid of it. If the argument falls apart in its absence, that thing was necessary for the argument to be sound

Question 14

Negating technique to check if the assumption is true or not

Answer 14

1) Break down the argument
2) Write down the negation of each answer
3) Eliminate the choices that do not hurt the conclusion
4) Choose the answer that most specifically hurt the argument

Question 15

When answering an assumption questions

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key to avoid choosing a trap choice that is connected to the argument is to keep in mind that we are looking for, an unstated piece of informations necessary in order for the evidence to support the argument’s conclusion.

Question 16

The trap in assumptions maybe

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1) conclusion
2) argument that may be related to the passage in some way that makes them relevant to the discussion in the passage and therefore tempting

Question 17

When answering the assumptions

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keep in mind that the correct answers have to be assumptions intergal to support for the conclusions (avoid choosing trap choices that are temptingly connected to the arguments but clearly don’t do what’s required)

Question 18

Critical reasoning incorrect anwer will take important words or concepts from the stimulus

Answer 18

and swap these with seemilgly stand-ins that od not actually mean the same thing

Question 19

Assumptions often include answer choice

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that do basically the reverse of what a correct answer would do (??)

Question 20

When a question asks for assumption

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upon which the argument depends on, an answer choice that provides such an assumption will be correct and choices that gives an explanation of an aspect of the scenario discusses in the passage doesn’t

Question 21

Another type of incorrect answer

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choice that states a conclusion that is supported by the passage rather than an assumption upon which the argument depends
-> we are not loooking for conclusion, we are looking for something tht is an argument, an argument that supports our conclusion

Question 22

Does the plan have to be the best possible plan for it to work

Answer 22

No, it doesn’t;
-> we are concerned only with supporting the conclusion that the plan mentioned in the passage will work, not with proving that it is the best or only possible plan or only possible plan in order for it to work

Question 23

Incorrect answer choice

Answer 23

An answer choice that supports the conclusion but is not an assumption
-> there is a difference between answer choice that simply supports the conclusion of an argument and one that is an assumption upon which the argument depends.

Question 24

To correctly answer an assumption question

Answer 24

we need to find the answer hcoice that expresses an assumption upon which the argument depends

Question 25

Assumption question (diff one)

Answer 25

question can be composed of information that would weaken the argument combined with the word “not”