Kick it up

(KIU)

Stimuli that are made significantly easier to understand by kicking some concepts up into the argument's domain.

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Avg. difficulty: 3.5

Key tactics

  • When a concept is repeated in the premises of a conditional argument, you can kick that concept up into the domain to avoid redundancy in your thinking.
  • For example, if the premises read...
  • 1: Every senior at Palo Alto High School is bound to become a tech bro if they enroll in AP Comp. Sci.
  • 2: Brockleton is a senior at Palo Alto High School and enrolled in AP Comp. Sci.
  • ... rather than diagramming premise 1 "Senior + PAHS + AP Comp. Sci. → Tech Bro", we can simply treat "seniors at PAHS" as the domain, and think about the argument as follows:
  • Domain: Seniors at Palo Alto High School
  • 1: AP Comp. Sci. → Tech Bro
  • 2: Brockleton → AP Comp. Sci

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