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Emil-Kunkin on April 25, 2023

You are indeed right I'll be answering!

I'll start by saying that personally, I think that hard strengthen questions are the single hardest question type, with the possible exception of rule replacements in Lg. I would say that generally you're right, we should start by finding ways to attack the argument. Ultimately it's hard to strengthen something if you don't know what's wrong with it, so my first step will always be to try to attack the argument, and if I have a line of attack I like, there's a good chance a correct answer will rebut my attack.

However, this doesn't work all the time. Sometimes there will be multiple flaws in an argument, sometimes we can make an honest effort but still not figure out a decent line of attack. When this happens, I keep an open mind in the answer choices and try to answer the question "what, if anything, does this have to do with the argument." Essentially im using process of elimination at this point, but usually that helps me knock out clearly irrelevant or weakener answers, at which point I can look at the remaining ones and try to determine how, if at all, they might rebut a counter argument.

The method I described is always plan B. Plan A is always to find the flaw, but if that fails, I'd try plan b,

AndrewArabie on April 26, 2023

Great! Thank you Emil!