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Q2 - Behind the hope

by WaltGrace1983 Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:07 pm

The first seven or eight lines of this weaken question is primarily background information. It just gives the reader some idea of what is being talked about and what some people have hypothesized about the subject.

    Understanding does not consist merely of knowing facts and rules but also general concepts
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    Computers not able to replace teachers


There is an assumption here about "general concepts." The argument is assuming that a computer cannot actually help students with/teach students the general concepts "underlying facts and rules." But why not? It seems that the easiest way to weaken this question would be to simply say that computers can actually help students understand the general concepts. Since this is such an early question, I'll just move on from here.

    (A) But what about those general concepts? We basically assume this from the background information anyway.

    (B) This is also somewhat of a premise booster as we are basically told this in the background information. But what about those general concepts?!

    (C) This is absolutely perfect! It is exactly what I was predicting and it talks about those general concepts. I'll glance at the others and make sure nothing else is striking to me.

    (D) Once again, we need something about general concepts!

    (E) The LSAT made this too easy: where are those general concepts?!