help me resovle these twe questions stems

shirleylixu

1. which one of the following, if all of them are true, is helpful in establishing that the conclusion above is properly drawn?

2.which one of the following, if all of them are assumed, would allow the conclusion to be properly drawn?

are these two question stems the same?

thanks

lawyerme

not exactly, if you were asking about LSAT question stems.

1. Strengthen Question: help in any way (>0%)

2. Justify Question: more like prove (=100%)

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shirleylixu

oh~~rite~!!

help vs. allow!!

you always hang around to save lives

monitorzhe

第二个是assumption题型，assumption的定义就是，如果没有它，argument就不成立

xiaolongnu

first is if true

second is assumption

shirleylixu

以下是引用monitorzhe在2007-2-10 20:12:00的发言：
第二个是assumption题型，assumption的定义就是，如果没有它，argument就不成立

to monitorzhe

As what you definited, the assumption type recongnized when the argument cannot be concluded if the element asked is absent or  untrue.

i am for it. And in this definition, we could convert it to:  if the argument is valid, then the assumption is true. that means we take everything in the argument(stimulus) as true, while the answer choices are pending.

The 2nd question stem i posted means if the answer choice we select is true, the conclusion above(in the stimulus) is valid. So we take all the answer choices true, and the conclusion is pending.

Actually, I agree with the answers of lawyerme's. the second question stem belongs to a type called Justify the conclusion which means to the most extent (100%) STRENGTHEN the argument(conclusion). And the strengthening is so powerful that the conclusion could be properly drawn. 

Back to the 1st stem, same thing almost. But the only difference is between the words "help" and "allow".

only a tiny fraction of strengthening could be help, a hundred percent of strengthening also helps. so this question stem asked to stengthen the conclusion at the least extent. 

If you just take a glance at one, just one assumption question stem now, you'll find something different.

Which one of following is an assumption required by the argument above?

obviously and automatically, we take the argument as what it is.

there is substantive difference between strengthening and assumpting.

think twice.

 

What do you think? Xiaolongnv

yztx

1、Strengthen

2、true