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Lesson 6: Logical Reasoning – Articles- Getting started with Logical Reasoning
- Introduction to arguments
- Catalog of question types
- Types of conclusions
- Types of evidence
- Types of flaws
- Identify the conclusion | Quick guide
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- Identify the conclusion | Examples
- Identify an entailment | Quick guide
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- Strongly supported inferences | Quick guide
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- Disputes | Quick guide
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- Identify the technique | Quick guide
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- Identify the role | Quick guide
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- Identify the principle | Quick guide
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- Match structure | Quick guide
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- Match principles | Quick guide
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- Identify a flaw | Quick guide
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- Match a flaw | Quick guide
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- Necessary assumptions | Quick guide
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- Sufficient assumptions | Quick guide
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- Strengthen and weaken | Quick guide
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- Helpful to know | Quick guide
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- Explain or resolve | Quick guide
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Match principles | Quick guide
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to match principles from the stimulus to principles in a choice
These questions are very similar to match structure questions, in that the stimulus is made up of an argument or situation, and each choice represents an argument or situation. Your job is to find the choice that exhibits the same principle as the argument or situation in the passage.
Wrong choices will often present a situation or argument that has a slightly (or very) different principle governing it than the situation or argument in the passage.
Predicting the answer isn’t possible for these questions, since the topic doesn’t matter, and so we wouldn't be able to predict the answer's topic—only the underlying principle matters. However, it’s best to have a strong idea of what the passage’s principle is before moving to examine the choices.
✓ Identify the principle that governs the passage: Keep that principle simple but accurate. If you’re having trouble identifying the principle, ask yourself what the arguer seems to value. why do they recommend or predict or compare what they do?
✓ Examine each choice in turn: Discard the situations or arguments that stray significantly from the principle that you identified.
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