Hi. It’s a good question.
It’s better to consider specific concrete examples. Because generalizations will always have an exception would be wrong for some reason. However, you could say in general that you will have to make a number of basic assumptions. Every argument will have some basic assumptions for example, there are no force major circumstances, etc
The statements will usually be brief and therefore will lack detail and you will have to figure out if a certain statement is within scope or outside of scope. Usually, if there’s no mention of the budget in the argument and you cannot tie a budget or any other comment to the initial argument directly, you would deem it to be outside of the scope.
However, this is a very big part of critical reasoning and reading comprehension, judging what answered choices are within and which ones are outside of the scope. it takes weeks and months to build your ear and gut where your gut will tell you that a certain answer choice may be within this very vague scope line and another answer choice may be outside of it. The heart of the question, the blur the scope LIne gets, at least for the majority of us.
However, if you find some examples, we can dive more into specifics and why certain choices are within scope and others may be outside.
ksan wrote:
When there is a plan mentioned in the CR passage and the question is asking to either weaken or strengthen the claim that the plan will be effective, should we assume that the plan will be able to be implemented? A lot of the times there are answer choices saying that there is no budget to implement the plan, would this actually weaken that the plan will be effective? The way I think about it is that this statement does not weaken as it doesn't provide anything regarding the effectiveness of the plan in the case that it is actually implemented. However, I have seen answer choices similar to this being the right answer.
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