Week 2: Strengthen (LR) Flashcards

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Strengthen Question

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asking you to choose the answer choice that best supports the stimulus.

the answer choice that best suggest the likelihood of the stimulus.

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How to Spot a Strengthen Question:

most _____________”

“**most **_____________”

most_____________”

Notice how each of these options uses the word “most” in the stimulus –> we’re looking for the answer choice with the greatest impact possible on the stimulus.

A

strengthens; supports; justifies

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How to Solve Strengthen Questions

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You solve all questions in the Assumption family (Nec. Assumption, Suff. Assumption, Flaw, Strengthen, Weaken) the same way:

  1. Find Conclusion
  2. Find Evidence
  3. Evaluate
  • evaluate the space between the arg.
  • btw, the arg. in everyone of the question types from the assumption family is invalid, always.
  • grant that the evidence is true, but ask ‘do I really have to accept this conclusion?’
  1. Anticipate
  2. Answer Choices
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Reasoning Structures

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Comparison: 72% (foremost)

Causal: 33% (next most frequent)

Conditional: 22% (barely see it)

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Comparison
how to do comparison prompts usually operate in strengthen questions?

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sometimes, the comparison will be between the same thing at different points in time, and other times it will be between two different things at the same point in time.

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Oftentimes the flaw with comparisons in strengthen questions is that the author says we should choose one of the two alternatives while only talking about the _____________ of one of the alternatives and not explaining the ________ about the other alternative.

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benefit; pros

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Causal
how to strengthen a causal conclusion?

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Do the opposite of what you would do in a weaken question.

Eliminate Alternate Causes

Cause with Effect

No Cause, No Effect

(More Cause, More Effect)

Eliminate Reverse Cause

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Trap Answer Patterns

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Scope

  • Out of Scope

Logic

  • Weaken
  • Irrelevant Relationship
  • Premise Support

Degree

  • Too Weak
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