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Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival theproposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts

presented in the argument.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order todecide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to

explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion.

Flaws to Watch Out For

Unjustified Assumptions

Extreme Language

Predicting the Future

The Troubled Analogy

Whats Their Motivation?

Confusing Signs of a Thing for the Thing Itself

The Ever-Changing Pool

Correlation Does Not Equal Causation

Missing Premises

Skill & Will

Nothing is Quantified

Terms are Too Vague

Sample Isnt Representative

Sample Too Small

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