Lessons

Lesson 1 - Baxe Interiors - MSS Review

You Try Bacterial Species - MSS Review

Lesson 2 - University Administrator

You Try Successful Political Administration

Lesson 3 - Nutritional Labels

You Try Krakkenbak Bridge

Lesson 4 - Florida Panthers

You Try Profits of Downtown Businesses

Lesson 5 - West Calverton Pet Shops

You Try Coffeehouses and Restaurants

You Try VideoKing Frequent Viewers Club

You Try Raspberry Nurseries - MSS Review

Lesson 6 - Rigorous Studies for Young Children

You Try Microchip Transistors

Lesson 7 - Coastal Estuaries

You Try Phosphorus in the Ocean

Lesson 8 - Writing Computer Code

You Try Smoking Ban in the Workplace

Live Class: Most Strongly Supported and Must Be True

Theory and Approach (RRE)

Resolve, Reconcile, or Explain Questions

With this question type, we shift away from pulling inferences out of the stimulus, and we introduce a whole new family of questions that instead ask us to add new information back into the stimulus.

Lesson 1 - Electric Bug Zappers

You Try Fossilized Shark Teeth

You Try Spruce, Fir, and Sugar Maple

You Try Galaxies in the Universe

Lesson 2 - Coral Reef Shrimp

You Try Heat Wave and Blackouts

You Try Red Meat Consumption

You Try Tornadoes in North America

Lesson 3 - Poverty and Malnourishment

You Try Mayor Walker's Questionable Ethics

You Try Automobile Thefts

You Try Direct or Indirect Quotations

You Try Birds' Beak Size

You Try Abridgement of Hamlet - MSS Review

Lesson 4 - Rush Hour on the M25

You Try Congested Highways

You Try Tossing Balls to Children

Live Class: Resolve Reconcile Explain

Weaken, Strengthen, Evaluate Questions - Causal Logic

Return to the logic of cause-and-effect relationships with a look at how new premises can affect—or fail to affect—causal arguments.

How to Weaken Arguments

Theory and Approach - Alternative Hypotheses (WSE Causal)

Lesson 1 - Jocko the Chimp (W)

Lesson 2 - Leaving a Parking Space (W)

You Try Build a New Freeway (W)

You Try Travaillier Corporation (W)

You Try Technological Innovations (W)

Transition to Strengthen (S)

Lesson 3 - Snoring (S)

You Try Alternative Energy Funding (S)

You Try Perfect Pitch (S)

You Try Beta-Carotene on Health - RRE Review

Theory and Approach - Ideal Experiment (WSE Causal)

2 min

Lesson 4 - Chronic Back Pain (W)

You Try Joggers and Stretching (W)

19 min

You Try Antibiotic Resistance (S)

Motivation Break: Anna Okada

Theory and Approach - Other Causal Considerations (WSE Causal)

Lesson 5 - Mediterranean Diet and Health (S)

You Try Air Pollution in Industrial England (S)

You Try Recreational Spending and Mental Health (S)

You Try Sunscreen and Skin Cancer (W)

You Try Unhealthy Centenarians (S)

You Try Allergies in Children (S)

You Try Theory of Ecosystems (W)

Lesson 6 - Mild Winter Birds (S)

You Try Alzheimer's and Microglia (S)

Theory and Approach - Assumption Framework (WSE Causal)

Lesson 7 - Relaxation Training (W)

You Try Chicxulub Crater (W)

You Try Tracks in Sandstone (W)

You Try Athenian Epidemic (W)

You Try Chirality of Weedkiller Molecule (S)

You Try Irradiated Foods (W)

You Try Carol Morris and The Daily (S)

Causal Argument Forms

Theory and Approach (WSE Non-Causal)

Review (WSE Causal)

2 min

Weaken, Strengthen, Evaluate Questions

Keep honing your ability to critically engage with imperfect arguments as you work through a wider variety of Weaken, Strengthen, and Evaluate questions.

Lesson 1 - Equal Pay (E)

Lesson 2 - Stinging Nettles (S)

You Try Population Change in Weston (S)

You Try Original Purpose of Copyright (S)

You Try Business Class Tickets (W)

Lesson 3 - Cost-Benefit of Halophytes (S)

You Try Low-Wattage Bulbs (E)

You Try New Marketing Campaign (W)

Lesson 4 - City Council's Wisdom (W)

You Try Privatize National Parks (W)

You Try Ruins of Tiwanaku (E)

You Try Deep-Diving Marine Mammals (W)

You Try Peer Review and Fraud (S)

Review (WSE Non-Causal)

Drill WSE Questions

Live Class: Weaken Strengthen Evaluate

Summary and Transition to PSA Questions

Pseudo Sufficient Assumption or Rule-Application Questions

Build on your skills in strengthening arguments with a closer look at the reasoning of rules and applications, which arises on a number of Logical Reasoning questions.

Lesson 1 - Medication M (S)

You Try Plaintiff's Request (S)

You Try Sentencing Guidelines (S)

Theory and Approach - Find the Rule (PSAr)

Lesson 2 - Meyer's PhD is Revoked (PSAr)

You Try Hagerle's Sincere Apology (PSAr)

You Try Intentionally Harming a Child (PSAr)

You Try Good Local Journalism (PSAr)

Lesson 3 - An Art Museum's Collection (PSAr)

You Try Ancient Mosaics from Zeugma (PSAr)

You Try The Value of a Counterfeit Diamond (PSAr)

You Try Clean Water from For-Profit Companies (PSAr)

You Try Harm from Exposure to Substance T (PSAr)

You Try Government Censoring Opinion (PSAr)

You Try Increasing Highway Speed Limits (PSAr)

You Try Pesticide on Peaches (PSAr)

You Try Preserve the Maximum Number of Species (PSAr)

You Try Protecting the Freedom to Associate (PSAr)

Theory and Approach - Find or Complete the Application (PSAa)

Lesson 4 - Reasonable Expectation of Coverage (PSAa)

You Try Deliberately Attempting to Mislead Bidders (PSAa)

Lesson 5 - Playing a Practical Joke (PSAa)

You Try Unauthorized Access of Computer Files (PSAa)

Legal Arguments Use the Same Logic

Review (PSA)

Drill PSA (Rule-Application) Questions

Live Class: Pseudo Sufficient Assumptions

Checkpoint - How are you feeling about the Core Curriculum?

Theory and Approach (Princ)

Principle Questions

Expanding on the patterns of general rules and specific applications that we saw in the previous module, we now turn our attention to Principle questions.

Lesson 1 - A Stair or a Ladder

You Try Spotted Trinidadian Guppies

You Try Qwerty or Dvorak Keyboard

You Try Public Institutions and Public Purposes

Review (Princ)

Drill Principle Questions

Live Class: Identifying Principles

Transition to Sufficient Assumption Questions

Sufficient Assumption Questions

When you strengthen an argument so hard, it’s logically indestructible. Learn about Sufficient Assumption questions, which hold arguments to the highest standard of logical validity.

You Try Ms. Sandstrom's Newspaper Column

Theory and Approach (SA)

4 min

You Try Marty's and Checkers Pizza

You Try Arvue Hires the Most Productive Candidate

You Try Mayor's Commendation Award

Lesson 1 - The Effectiveness of Obvious Flattery

You Try Pleasure from Art and Artistic Merit

You Try Expressing a World View and Representing Reality

You Try The Reliability of Subjective Reports

You Try Development of Insight and Effective Education

You Try Sensibly Interpreting Promises

You Try Detecting the Existence of Aliens

You Try Sacrificing Happiness for Money

Lesson 2 - City Council Vote or Abstain

You Try Understanding True Meaning of Author's Statements

You Try Rational Consumer Behavior

Lesson 3 - Individual Freedom Requires Rule of Law

You Try Pin-Tipped and Bladed Etching Tools

Lesson 4 - Drink Milk to Lower Blood Pressure

You Try Historical Knowledge and Moral Judgment

You Try Confidence and Success

Review (SA)

Sufficient Assumption Questions vs. Must Be True Questions

Drill SA Questions

Live Class: Sufficient Assumption

Quiz on Logical Reasoning Question Stems First Half

Lesson 1 - Books that Explain Composting

Necessary Assumption Questions

Pull together everything you’ve learned about assumptions, argument support, and conditional reasoning with Necessary Assumption questions.

You Try Japanese Garden Design

You Try The Core Curriculum Committee

You Try Medical Information on Google

You Try French Novelist Colette

NA - Strengthen - PSA - SA Questions

Lesson 2 - Plesiosauromorphs

You Try Large Domesticated Mammals

You Try Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals

Lesson 3 - Bus Driver Performance

You Try Political Columnists

You Try Shrinking Applicant Pool

Lesson 4 - Plant Trees to Store Carbon

You Try Leather Tanning

You Try Thermophotovoltaic Generators

You Try Teaching Use of Color

You Try Intrinsic Brightness of Stars

Lesson 5 - Medicine from Rain Forests

You Try Preserving Old Film

You Try Reducing Class Size

Live Class: Necessary Assumption

Skill Builder Distinguishing Sufficient v. Necessary Assumption Question Stems

Argument Part Questions

Master your ability to recognize argument structures with Argument Part questions.

Theory and Approach (AP)

Lesson 1 - Learning the Lessons of History

19 min

You Try Acme Engines’ Locomotives

You Try Residential Garbage Policy

You Try Rainwater Runoff is Pollution

You Try Driving Position and Safety

You Try Causes of Cultural Phenomena

You Try Two Sets of Dinosaur Tracks

You Try Superconductor Development

You Try Iron Fortified Salt

You Try Cell Phones on Airplanes

You Try Jazz Singers and Horn Players

You Try Preservation of the Town Charter

Live Class: Main Conclusion and Argument Parts

Theory and Approach (MoR)

Method of Reasoning Questions

Following closely on the previous module, learn to reliably describe the author’s line of reasoning with Method of Reasoning questions.

Lesson 1 - Fishing in Eagle Bay

You Try Predicting a Recession

Lesson 2 - An Egalitarian Society

You Try Phoenix or Cartwright

You Try Cognitive and Visual Errors

You Try Perception and History

You Try Rap is Individualistic and Nontraditional

Live Class: Method of Reasoning

Theory and Approach (Flaw)

Flaw or Descriptive Weakening Questions

Learn to identify and describe the many ways in which an argument can be flawed.

The 2-Step Process for Evaluating Answers

4 min

Lesson 1 - Dog Discipline and Misbehavior

Lesson 2 - Dog Discipline and Misbehavior

You Try Overabundance of Algae

You Try Nutritional Labels and Fat Calories

Lesson 3 - Lead Paint in Homes

You Try Barn Owls

You Try Symptoms of Mental Illnesses

You Try Media and the Economy

You Try Iatrogenic Disease

22 min

You Try Dairy and Heart Health

You Try Make and Model of Car

You Try Slipped Discs and Back Pain

27 min

Lesson 4 - A Secretive Trade Group

You Try Liquid Water on Europa

You Try Athlete’s Foot Medication

You Try Criticism and Change

You Try Ingredients in Crackly Crisps

22 min

You Try Building an Airport in Dalton

You Try Long-Term Friendships

Lesson 5 - Selling a Defective Item

19 min

You Try The House on Oak Avenue

You Try A Union Strike

You Try Support for Tax Reduction

You Try DNA as Admissible Evidence

Lesson 6 - Popularity of News Stories

You Try Everyone Wants to be an Artist

You Try Reported Health Benefits

You Try Dramatic Findings in Small Studies

Lesson 7 - A Trip to Mars

Lesson 8 - Volleyball Champions

Lesson 9 - Democracy and Self-Interest

You Try A New University President

Lesson 10 - Campaign Finance Rules

Lesson 11 - Vegetarianism and Nutrition

Lesson 12 - Building a Shelter Site

You Try Arnot's Editorial

Lesson 13 - Right to Sell a Company

Lesson 14 - Cardiologist v. A.I.

Review (Flaw)

Argument Flaw Cheat Sheet

Drill Flaw Questions

Live Class: The Flaw Factory

Parallel or Analogy Questions

Rounding off our work on Logical Reasoning, Parallel questions put everything we’ve learned about argument structure, support, assumptions, and flaws to the test.

Theory (Para or PF)

Approach (Para or PF)

Lesson 1 - Houses on River Street

22 min

You Try Auto Mechanics

24 min

You Try Discount Phoneline

You Try Game Show Winners