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Wednesday, Aug 13
The argument form is very simple. If love is a feeling (A), then Promise makes no sense (/B).
The conclusion negates the sufficient condition by claiming that no one should see love as a feeling (/A). By doing this, the argument completely falls apart. There's nothing triggering the necessary condition, which means that the claim just... stays there, floating around.
Therefore, the right answer choice is simply Promise makes no sense (/B).
Hi! I'm not an expert, but what helps me is to identify the premises and the conclusion, and then I try to simplify everything as best as I can.
So, for example, if a premise says "Some dogs like swimming in the pool", I just focus on the quantifier "some" and the fact that the statement is positive. If there's an answer choice that has "most", "none", "all", etc., I would immediately eliminate them because I'm looking for a "some" statement. Or if an answer choice says "some people don't like carrots", I will also eliminate it because the original argument does not contain a negation.
But even more importantly is to make sure that the conclusions match. So if the conclusion says "Therefore, some dogs are good swimmers", then again, I need to make sure that my conclusion has "Some" in it, and that it doesn't contain a negation.
If you want to be faster at this, you will first eliminate all the answer choices that have different conclusions to the one that you're looking for, and then you can read the premises of the ones that are left. Also, if the argument is way too complicated to keep this in mind, then I just encapsulate some ideas into A, B, or C statements. For example, let's say I have this argument: "I am smart, all smart people score 170+ on the LSAT. Therefore, I will score 170+ on the LSAT" If it's too hard for you to keep these ideas in mind, I would just say "All A's are B. A. therefore, B" or whatever it is. If you do this, you're going to be able to see the argument's form. So you would need an answer that says "All As are B; A; So, B". I don't know if that makes sense.