Engineer: Some people argue that the world's energy problems could be solved by mining the Moon for helium–3, which ...
YushaAugust 24, 2023
Utility
Is there a particular purpose at this juncture for identifying the following characteristics at the beginning of each answer's explication?
Argument or Facts:
Argument
Valid or Flawed:
Valid
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There is indeed a purpose, but it's also not something that is worth losing any sleep over. Ultimately it is a good thing to be able to read a passage and understand if it's an argument, and furthermore to understand if said argument is flawed, but ultimately the question type also almost always tells us if we need to worry about these things.
For must be trues for example, we can treat it as a set of facts even if there's an argument. For argument structure questions it's less important if we know how the argument is flawed than that we are able to understand the structure. The same is true for main point and method of reasoning questions. For strengthen, weaken, sufficient and necessary assumption, and error questions we do need to know it's flawed, but ultimately, we can know what our job is from the question stem.
To sum it up it is a very good idea to have a good sense of whether you're reading and argument, and if it's flawed, but ultimately the thing that gets you paid is knowing your job and executing. Here, your job is just to find the conclusion, so no real need to worry if it's flawed or not.
