Red Flags Flashcards

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Best way

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Best way literally uses the words “best way“ or a best keyword

Keywords: most effective, most efficient, least harmful, least damaging

Only choose when stimulus is literally about the best way to do some thing

Loophole: super value judgment

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Important

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Important identifies something as “important“ or an important keyword

Keyword: primary, Primarily, foremost, crucial, critical, imperative, paramount, significant, pressing, vital 

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Crazy nonsense

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Crazy nonsense has nothing to do with anything in the stimulus

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Group extreme

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A group extreme centers on the most extreme part of the group discussed in the stimulus

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Alllllmost

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An Alllllmost is still to the right except for one word or phrase that is off the rails wrong

Similar to half and half

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Opposite claim

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And apposite claim is about a full set of arguments conclusion

Only choose and weaken or counter question

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Dormant conditionals

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Dormant conditional is never activated by premises in the stimulus 

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Comparative and absolutes

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A comparative states a relative relationship between two things (like seeing X is more than Y)

Comparative keywords: more, less, better, worse, ER endings

An absolute attaches an adjective to a thing (like saying X is great. No mention of Y)

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