Self-study
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Summarize Argument
The author concludes that Jennifer’s presence in the game will ensure that the Eagles (Jennifer’s team) will win. This is based on computer analysis showing that in every game that the team has lost, Jennifer was not playing.
Identify and Describe Flaw
Although the premises establish that in all prior games, whenever Jennifer was in, the team didn’t lose (this is the contrapositive of “Team lost only when J wasn’t playing”), that doesn’t imply that this relationship must continue to be true for future games. In other words, what’s true about the past doesn’t have to be true about the future.
There’s also an assumption that in the games that the team didn’t lose, the team actually won (as opposed to having the game end in a tie).
Analysis by KevinLin
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