Key to Sufficient Assumptions Questions(I promise this works)

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• Markmark Alum Member

  May 2020 976 karma

  Hey I think this is a neat approach, what about for premise chain SA questions? Ie you have 3 premises, or an "and" or "or" premise set leading to a conclusion. Also what if you have a conditional conclusion? Can you provide examples please? I know for sure your approach would work with easier SA questions where you can separate the Ps and C clearly.
• Wherefromcovid Free Trial Member

  May 2020 18 karma

  Hello “anticipating the trigger” that’s where the problem lies.
  How to do that fast and accurately ?> @olaeboda said:

  Hey guys just wanted to impart some wisdom. Sufficient Assumptions questions are easy if you follow this 4 step process.

  1.Identify Conclusion/Understand it

  1. Identify Premise/Understand it

  2. Isolate the Conclusion(Important)

  3. Anticipate a Trigger that would force the the conclusion to happen

  Instead of thinking about SA questions like you need to fill in the blank. Think of them like a handgun. All you need to do is pull the trigger. All SA is a pull of the Trigger/or a push of the roller coaster button. Once you start to think like this they become so easy.

  DM me with any questions if this helped
• olaeboda Member

  May 2020 97 karma

  @Markmark That is why it is imperative to understand the premises. If you understand the premises you can come up with Sufficient assumptions from each of the premises.

  @Wherefromcovid I know this is going to sound harsh but practice. You have to get comfortable doing it then it becomes second nature
• Markmark Alum Member

  May 2020 976 karma

  I like what you said about being able to pull a SA from each premise, there was a really hard PSA question where you had to pull 2 SAs from 2 separate premises for the right answer. The difficulty can still lie in seeing what the premises and conclusion even are but ya I agree with your analysis!