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flaw reasoning
It is illogical to infer a second and different effect from a cause which is known only by one particular effect. This is incorrect because the inferred effect must necessarily be produced by some different characteristic of the cause than is the observed effect, which already serves entirely to des...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:10 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: flaw reasoning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2590
Bold Face
T he president’s nominees to federal circuit courts have been judged conservative for their stands on hot-button issues. But a review of their financial disclosure forms and Senate questionnaires reveals that the nominees are more notable for their close ties to corporate and economic interests, e...
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:09 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Bold Face
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1714
parallel reasoning
If, in a tennis tournament, a match reaches a fifth-set tiebreak, the lower-ranked player always loses the tiebreak (and, therefore, the match). If Rafael, the second-ranked player, wins a tournament by beating Roger, the top-ranked player, then the match must not have included a fifth-set tiebreak....
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:08 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: parallel reasoning
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1247
evaluate the argument’s conclusion
The Civil Service Act of 1883, also known as the Pendleton Act, which created a professional corps of administrators, was passed after a disappointed office-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield. For a hundred years, this system has anchored American government service to competence rather...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:07 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: evaluate the argument’s conclusion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1634
weaken
Whenever a major political scandal erupts before an election and voters blame the scandal on all parties about equally, virtually all incumbents, from whatever party, seeking reelection are returned to office. However, when voters blame such a scandal on only one party, incumbents from that party ar...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:07 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: weaken
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1654
resolve the paradox
Some scientists believe that 65 million years ago an asteroid struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby causing extinction of the dinosaurs. These scientists have established that such a strike could have hurled enough debris into the atmosphere to block sunlight and cool the atmosphere. Wit...
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:06 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: resolve the paradox
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1682
bold face
A team of Swedish scientists recently concluded a fifteen year study on the relationship between fatty or lean fish consumption and the risk of kidney cancer; the study revealed that those who ate on average more than one serving per week of fatty fish had 44 percent less risk for developing renal c...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:05 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: bold face
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3850
assumptions
Armchair anthropologists of the Victorian Era rarely visited the lands in whose cultures they proclaimed themselves experts, and were as likely as not to call the inhabitants “savages.� By contrast, contemporary anthropologists, who are not taken seriously unless they have lived for a time among...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: assumptions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1338
inference
Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar pro...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:03 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: inference
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1442
lsat cr
Most parents who are generous are good parents, but some self-centered parents are also good parents. Yet all good parents share one characteristic: they are good listeners. If all of the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following must also be true? (A) All parents who are good l...
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:45 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: lsat cr
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2475
must be true
A computer equipped with signature-recognition software, which restricts access to a computer to those people whose signatures are on file, identifies a person’s signature by analyzing not only the form of the signature but also such characteristics as pen pressure and signing speed. Even the most...
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:45 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: must be true
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1720
no clue
Numismatist: In medieval Spain, most gold coins were minted from gold mined in West Africa, in the area that is now Senegal. The gold mined in this region was the purest known. Its gold content of 92 percent allowed coins to be minted without refining the gold, and indeed coins minted from this sour...
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:44 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: no clue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2616
strengthening cr
The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what is required to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale-the seven-note musical scale used in much of Western music since the Renaissance. Musicologists therefore hypothesize t...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:43 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: strengthening cr
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3099
must be true
There are fundamentally two possible changes in an economy that will each cause inflation unless other compensating changes also occur. There changes are either reductions in the supply of goods and services or increases in demand. In a prebanking economy the quantity of money available, and hence t...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:43 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: must be true
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1944
complete the passage
Davison River farmers are currently deciding between planting winter wheat this fall or spring wheat next spring. Winter wheat and spring wheat are usually about equally profitable. Because of new government restrictions on the use of Davison River water for irrigation, per acre yields for winter wh...
- by armaan700+
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:42 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: complete the passage
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1796