Answer choice like (D) puts me into an interesting situation, that I often find myself. I can perceive (D) in 2 different ways: 1) Subject matter i.e., size of natural habitat being a potential alternate cause, in which case its not a problem seeing this as a strengthener. 2) More interestingly, if ...

Hey, I have a question about C. As the argument said, laser-printer drums are easily damaged. With C, though it is true that all printers have the same blemishes during the manufacturing process, every printer still can have unique blemishes due to daily use. So I don't think C is strong enough? Th...

First thing I'll say without even looking at this question in particular is that for strengthen and weaken questions, they always ask which MOST strengthens or MOST weakens. Therefore, sometimes your task isn't just to figure out what weakens, but which one weakens more than the other answer choice...

I just think (B) is the least worse answer that doesn't strengthen...cuz I don't think its reasonable to infer from (B) that replacing crops with SEED not crop (which we might not even get it to grow until the next season) makes us put a stake on the ground that it doesn't devastate the food supply....

Nice job ID'ing the core! So here's the problem. You got the core down. You narrowed it down to (A) and (B). Now what? Compare the answer choices to each other, right? NO. Compare them to your core. You said the conclusion is: -gravity is a property of space itself b/c a body curves the space aroun...

I feel like (B) isn't completely out of the ballpark. If the answer was reversed, that criminals were MORE likely to receive therapy in prison than out of prison, the argument would be weakened as remaining silent, most of the time, would not leaves the client out of prison. Can anyone confirm the ...

(B) This weakens the argument. The author wants us to think that the highly specialized technically trained graduates are not as employable as the unspecialized liberal arts graduates. (D) This answer feels like it's saying, "liberal arts stuff is more important than technical training stuff&q...

I completely follow the thought trail, but want to make sure how we get rid of (A)! Is it because 1) it neither supports nor weakens (as we can't say anything about the 82 that died earlier) or 2) its a slight weakener (as we can say "oh at least we know that for 4 ppl, support group seemed to ...

Hey guys, I had a general question regarding what aspect of an answer choice in this question makes it a valid strengthener/weakener. Specifically can a valid strengthener/weakener merely address the CONCLUSION and not the REASONING. For this question: P: Ireland did peat harvesting without water co...

Hey guys, This is a strengthen EXCEPT question and wanted to test if (E) could have been a viable answer choice if we tweaked a little bit. If it rather talked about some aspect of gasoline that is bad in general sense but no ways can be assessed in comparison to gasohol, then would that be still be...

Taken in this light, (B) is clearly irrelevant. Whether the Danish invested more or less than some other country invested in some other project does not affect the likelihood of the Danish project being profitable. See what I mean? Hey, Thanks for the explanation! While, I now do understand why (A)...

As for the wrong answers: (A) is tempting, however, even if these folks aren't exercising after work, if their employment requires physical exertion, they're not living a sedentary life. Subtly out of scope! Hey Noah, I just spent so much time going back and forth between (A) and (C), it didn't rea...

The conclusion is that at the beginning of the season the average trout in the Macawber river weighed 1.6 kilograms. The evidence for this is that such was the average weight of the 2 trout selected by fisherman who caught at least that many trout. The issue is that the fisherman are likely to sele...

The argument does not assume that one will always see others as more able or less able, but rather offers those two experiences as triggers of certain results. If one compared oneself to someone one did not see as more or less able, the argument does not speak to that issue. Well I do think there i...

So, does that mean that whenever you have an argument such as "Because X can't fully explain Y, thus, in order to fully understand Y we need to look into ~X" it will be circular? That is correct. The generic outline of an argument above is circular in that the conclusion is presupposed in...

(E) is not taken for granted. The argument is about people who have psychological problems and wrests on assumption of the distribution of those problems across people who have such problems. However, the likelihood that someone from the general public would have psychological problems is never at ...

If (B) didn't say "only," it would just be saying that the argument takes for granted that failed attempts are relevant to deciding whether or not to accept the claim. Okay... but is that a flaw? Not really. The issue is that they're taken as sufficient evidence to draw a conclusion, not ...

He doesn't make a generalization. He says "numerous books" and "usually the authors of such books". He never says all books. So that's why I think B is wrong. D is much better because those "numerous books" and "authors of such books" could be referring to ju...

Why is C wrong? Maybe he (Bacon) said it but it wasn't his opinion. IE he was required to say it as a teacher Thanks Hey peg_city, I initially did not cross out answer choice (C) b/c of the same reason. However, the argument does not care about the REASON for how that statement came about; evidence...

I crossed out (A) bc I was strictly sticking to the passage where it said "sociological/psychological" data not just any data...(I came to distinguish the two as the passage seem to classify s/p data as nonlegal materials from all other data)..what am I dong wrong here...