Lesson: Critical/Logical Reasoning - 21

Strengthen/Weaken Questions

Learning to identify an argument's central assumption is crucial not only for assumption questions, but for other question types as well. Strengthen/Weaken questions, which ask you to either strengthen or weaken an argument, almost always depend on your ability to identify the central assumption.

Let's go back to our Central High School volleyball players.

The argument looked like this:

The best way to weaken an argument is to attack the central assumption.

How might you weaken this argument? Type your answer in the Text Box and then click Continue to compare your answer to ours.

Weaken:

Hint

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