LSAT-3-1-6[求助]

In my view, sims' refutation is not as subtle as you may think. On one side he says that he doesn't want to talk about issues such as age in the campaign, on the other side, however, he added immediately that he won't comment on his competitor's youth and inexperience. Indeed his reply is more contradictory than subtle.

The easiest way to crack down this kind of question is try to exclude one by one the listed choices. For example, Sims doesn't make any judgement about whether R's claim is correct, so A can be removed. He does mention the issue of age, so the answer cannot be B; HE mentionned nothing about which issues are important (C)nor did he say anything about the contradictioriness of R's statement (D).

In fact, it is true that sims didn't respond directly. In his reply, he indicated clearly that he didn't want to talk about the issue. That's why choice E is the right answer.

hope it helps...

这道题考的就是：在面对逻辑问题的时候不要用生活中的眼光。如果从一般的思维看，R在利用年龄问题搞人身攻击，而S巧妙的回应。但是用逻辑的思维，S反驳R应该要么说我还不老，要么说老和能力无关，或其他理由来直接反驳R。但题目中S的说法，就好像：“你说我有这个问题，我还说你有那个毛病呢！”实际是默认了R的话。

这道题我是这样想的：

R: too old --> can not address effectively...

如果 S 是 respond directly to R's claim 的话，

S 应该这样削弱R：too old --> neg(can not address effectively...) 即：too old --> can address effectively...

而S没有这样，所以他没有respond directly to R's claim