Which one of the following statements most accurately characterizes a difference between the two passages?
Aidanon October 25, 2023
Valid Argument
Hi, real quick, I read some of the other questions and responses above regarding the Sue premise. I'm kind of confused about how we are supposed to take that premise in relation to an answer. Would the passage also need to say "there is a person who is a man and also named Sue" for it to be discredited. Or for a Weaken question could a possible answer be something along the lines of there is a possibility that Sue can be a boy. I hope my question makes sense. Thank you
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Your question does make sense, and the answer to both of your questions is yes. To fully discredit the argument, we would want to show an actually counter example- that is we would need the actual boy named sue. However to weaken an argument we don't need to fully disprove it, so a statement like "it's not impossible for a boy to have a name like sue, which is typically associated with girls." Would suffice. Effectively, if we want to completely disprove a premise we need a counter example or a statement showing it is false, but to weaken all we need to do is to cast doubt on it, not to fully disprove it.
