GMAT逻辑基础知识之Strengthen and Paradox.

　　作为中国考生失分最为严重的逻辑部分，往往是对GMAT逻辑基础知识不够了解，今天小编就针对GMAT逻辑考试基础知识：Strengthen and Paradox给大家提供一些建议，希望能给大家一些帮助。

　　Strengthen and Paradox

　　Strengthen and weaken are two sides of the same coin: the difference is only the angle from which you look at the same coin(problem).

　　Prompts leading to strengthen:

　　• Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

　　• Which one of the following, if true, most supports the director’s argument?

　　• Which one of the following, if true, most justifies the teacher’s reasoning?

　　Prompts that ask you what most justifies the argument are strengthen prompts, while prompts that ask you what justifies the conclusion are sufficient assumption prompts.

　　Also, prompts that ask you which answer most supports that passage are strengthen prompts, while prompts that ask you which answer is most supported by the passage are most strongly supported prompts. The key difference between them is: what is supporting what; is the passage supposed to support the answer or be supported by the answer?

　　Approach these strengthen questions just as you would weaken questions except that instead of exploiting the argument’s weakness, you are supposed to use NEW information to buttress the argument or to eliminate the weakness.

　　Prompt leading to paradox:

　　• Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the apparent paradox above?

　　• Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the conflict described above?

　　• Which one of the following, if true, would most fectively reconcile the discrepancy described above?

　　Bore you look at the answers:

　　1. Paradox questions usually give two facts that appear incompatible. Single out these two facts.

　　2. Ask yourself, “Why one of the facts is true, even though the other fact is true as well?” Usually one the facts will fit better after why while the other fact will fit better after even though.

　　3. Predict a possible answer by answering your “Why . . . even though . . .” question.

　　Then look for the answer which best explains your “Why . . . even though . . .” question. The correct answer choice must explain why both facts might actually be true without contradicting each other. Some wrong answers will explain why one fact is true without addressing the paradox.

　　上面就是对GMAT逻辑基础知识之Strengthen and Paradox的介绍，诚然，仅仅掌握一些GMAT逻辑基础知识是不够的，但我们需要将这名逻辑基础打好，只有这样，我们才能理解和挑战高难度的GMAT逻辑题目。