Can weakening or strengthening questions have valid conclusions

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  lizzogonzo Member

  August 2021 628 karma

  If it's 100% then logically the stimulus is airtight and like you said, completely valid. Strengthen/Weaken questions will always have a logical flaw
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  BlueRiceCake Member

  August 2021 edited August 2021 302 karma

  @lizzogonzo said:
  If it's 100% then logically the stimulus is airtight and like you said, completely valid. Strengthen/Weaken questions will always have a logical flaw

  Thank you I sometimes avoid looking for a flaw in strengthening and weakening because of the timing and fear that I'm wasting time on a valid argument. Gonna stop doing that
• WinningHere Member

  August 2021 edited August 2021 417 karma

  I'm not looking for flaw necessarily on strengthen or weaken, but rather looking to add to the support for the argument for strengthen. For weaken I am looking for alternative, causal argument, or reversal.
• Logician Alum Member Sage ⭐

  August 2021 2464 karma

  All the arguments in strengthen/weaken questions are invalid arguments. Remember, on the LSAT, you cannot directly attack the premises, you have to accept them as true. If these questions contained valid arguments, you wouldn’t be able to do anything without altering/attacking the premises (which you cannot do 99.9% of the time), because the premises would be forcing the conclusion to follow.