December 2004 LSAT - Section 2 - Question 18
Emil-Kunkin December 25, 2023
For starters, all strengthen and weaken arguments are flawed. You can't really strengthen an argument that is already perfect. In this case, the argument is purely speculative. The author identifies a phenomenon, and offers two possible and mutually exclusive explanations for it. The author really doesn't give us any reason or argument in favor it the latter, so it is flawed simply in the fact that it fails to actually make an argument, it just states its position.