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Arishenyka on August 3, 2020

Flawed argument

The answer identifies this argument as flawed, can someone please explain how we know that? thank you!

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Emil-Kunkin on December 25 at 08:19PM

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.