All right.

So I bet you did mock trial to pad your resume for applying to law school.

I'm sure.

And sadly, that's like two shuffles forward and ten steps back.

Yeah.

You're missing the real big picture there.

3.25 ain't getting it done for the C-14.

Sorry.

Hello and welcome to episode 540 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox.

With me is Ben Olson. We're the co-founders of El-Sat Demon.com and the El-Sat Demon Daily podcast. Let's dive right in, Ben. We have a question on our syllabus. Before we get into it,

I wanted to ask you how you describe the difference between weaken questions and flaw questions.

Yeah, well, in both cases, in my mind, you are first reading the argument, trying to understand what the conclusion is and why it is either proven or not proven.

In both of those cases, it's not going to be proven, but you don't know that when you're reading the argument.

So you're trying to figure that out, and then you figure out what's wrong with the argument.

And then when you go into the question, a weaking question is just asking you for a fact

that's going to make you doubt the conclusion more than you did before.

Whereas in a flaw question,

it's asking for a description of what the argument did wrong.

Okay.

So one thing I like to say about it is that, you know, you got to notice that in the

question it says which one of the following, if true, would undermine the argument for a

weakened question.

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