June 2010 LSAT
Section 5
Question 26
Emil-Kunkin on January 8, 2023
Hi, I think this is an interesting approach, and I would endorse it with caution. On the whole, I like it, since one of the best ways to strengthen an argument is to attack a weakener. In this respect, I think that your approach is a great way to confirm that a weakener does weaken. However, I could see one downside being that one could strengthen an argument without necessarily attacking a weakener, and there are weakeners that I could imagine are hard to counter with a strengthener. I think this is a useful tool, but the most important thing for a weakener is to be able to tell yourself a convincing story as to why the new fact weakens the authors argument.