Daily Drills 8 - Section 8 - Question 1

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument?

Neela September 28, 2019

Why not strengthen with necessary premise

Can you please explain why this is not strengthen with necessary premise and what would be required for it to be so? Thank you!

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Irina September 28, 2019

@Neela,

Strengthen with necessary premise questions usually have a question stem similar to one of the following:

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
Which one of the following is an assumption that the fund-raiser’s argument depends on?
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
Which one of the following is an assumption made by the argument?

This particular question stem simply asks us to find a statement that would strengthen the argument rather than identify a necessary assumption.

Let me know if you have any further questions.