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15 Jan 2020, 21:49
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Hi,
While solving CR questions, my thought process for finding the assumptions for an argument feels very unnatural and uncomfortable.
It feels as if I have to against what I feel is naturally right and force myself to think in a constrained path to arrive at the answer choice. For example: Most of the times when I read a CR passage and isolate the conclusion and premises and step into finding the scope shift or the missing link between premises and the conclusion, I feel that there is nothing wrong in the way author has concluded from the premises and it is logical. But then I choose the answer choice based on my intuition I make a mistake. I'm not sure how to improve my skill, if I don't know where I'm making a mistake..
Most of the advice out there is to think about the missing link, scope shift, etc.. But there is no logical sequential questioning as a guidance that can help me think about what the assumptions could be..
This could be extremely fundamental but answer or discussion about this will shed light to might thinking clarity.
Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks
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While solving CR questions, my thought process for finding the assumptions for an argument feels very unnatural and uncomfortable.
It feels as if I have to against what I feel is naturally right and force myself to think in a constrained path to arrive at the answer choice. For example: Most of the times when I read a CR passage and isolate the conclusion and premises and step into finding the scope shift or the missing link between premises and the conclusion, I feel that there is nothing wrong in the way author has concluded from the premises and it is logical. But then I choose the answer choice based on my intuition I make a mistake. I'm not sure how to improve my skill, if I don't know where I'm making a mistake..
Most of the advice out there is to think about the missing link, scope shift, etc.. But there is no logical sequential questioning as a guidance that can help me think about what the assumptions could be..
This could be extremely fundamental but answer or discussion about this will shed light to might thinking clarity.
Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks
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16 Jan 2020, 15:25
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I was in the same boat (and maybe still am). However, I believe that I improved my critical reasoning overall drastically by finding out what the conclusion is. Once you have (and write it down!) the conclusion, answering assumption questions or any other CR questions are a lot easier.
Once you have the conclusion you can do some nifty negation techniques to find what weakens the conclusion.
Or, if you don't like the negation techniques, you're going to have look at the answer choices and determine which choice is a needed premise to your conclusion (POE)... something that you need to have a sound argument (an argument that is valid and whose premises are all true)
But then again, I'm just a person who is in the same process as you.
Just my 2 cents
Once you have the conclusion you can do some nifty negation techniques to find what weakens the conclusion.
Or, if you don't like the negation techniques, you're going to have look at the answer choices and determine which choice is a needed premise to your conclusion (POE)... something that you need to have a sound argument (an argument that is valid and whose premises are all true)
But then again, I'm just a person who is in the same process as you.
Just my 2 cents
17 Jan 2020, 06:04
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Hi,
While solving CR questions, my thought process for finding the assumptions for an argument feels very unnatural and uncomfortable.
It feels as if I have to against what I feel is naturally right and force myself to think in a constrained path to arrive at the answer choice. For example: Most of the times when I read a CR passage and isolate the conclusion and premises and step into finding the scope shift or the missing link between premises and the conclusion, I feel that there is nothing wrong in the way author has concluded from the premises and it is logical. But then I choose the answer choice based on my intuition I make a mistake. I'm not sure how to improve my skill, if I don't know where I'm making a mistake..
Most of the advice out there is to think about the missing link, scope shift, etc.. But there is no logical sequential questioning as a guidance that can help me think about what the assumptions could be..
This could be extremely fundamental but answer or discussion about this will shed light to might thinking clarity.
Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks
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While solving CR questions, my thought process for finding the assumptions for an argument feels very unnatural and uncomfortable.
It feels as if I have to against what I feel is naturally right and force myself to think in a constrained path to arrive at the answer choice. For example: Most of the times when I read a CR passage and isolate the conclusion and premises and step into finding the scope shift or the missing link between premises and the conclusion, I feel that there is nothing wrong in the way author has concluded from the premises and it is logical. But then I choose the answer choice based on my intuition I make a mistake. I'm not sure how to improve my skill, if I don't know where I'm making a mistake..
Most of the advice out there is to think about the missing link, scope shift, etc.. But there is no logical sequential questioning as a guidance that can help me think about what the assumptions could be..
This could be extremely fundamental but answer or discussion about this will shed light to might thinking clarity.
Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks
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Try to identify main point in the question and in options check which option is having some logical relation with your main point.
