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Idin Sabahipour

Watson Glaser: Cheat sheet   1. INFERENCES  ● Question gives a statement, which you assume to be true ● Use statement + c  ommonly shared knowledge   Possible answers: True

Probably true

Insufficient data

Probably false

False

  2. ASSUMPTIONS  ● Consider telling the statement-maker: “Yeah, but you’ve assumed that... “ ○ Once you’ve asked that, does the assumption follow? Would you “win the argument?”  Possible answers: Assumption made Assumption not made   3. DEDUCTIONS  ● Drawing a conclusion from a premise true? ● Do the statements logically follow? Are the conclusions necessarily  ● Assume everything given in the statement is true ● Use diagrams to represent what’s said ● Try to think of c  ounterexamples to disprove possible conclusions  

Idin Sabahipour

  4. INTERPRETATIONS  ● Asses whether a conclusion can follow from the given information beyond a reasonable doubt ○ Focus on the data in the passage ● “Beyond a reasonable doubt” is a higher threshold than “probably true”   5. EVALUATING ARGUMENTS  ● Argument is STRONG if: i. IMPORTANT, and ii. RELATED TO THE QUESTION.  ● Argument is WEAK if: i. Irrelevant, or ii. Doesn’t answer the question  ● Remember: You’re not assessing the TRUTH in the argument or whether you AGREE WITH IT. ○ Assume all arguments are true...