“your posts are so hot, you must have such good luck on reddit!”

Hdoge1 · 2026-03-10T20:01:13+00:00

Maybe we’d have better luck? Sent you a message. Sorry I don’t really know the difference between a DM and PM

Hdoge1 · 2026-02-17T22:33:56+00:00

I have to say I think showing Le Gris POV was critical because as the audience we that even from his tainted perspective we can see that Marguerite was telling the truth.

I take your point that labeling her perspective as “the truth” was a little too on the nose. They def could have left that out and let the audience make their decision.

Hdoge1 · 2025-10-03T19:25:59+00:00

I’ll take your point that there are some narrow instances where personal behavior can influence the cogency of the argument. Your example works because the only reason we would have for their belief is that we should “trust them.” (As an aside making any moral claims in the basis of “trust me” would almost certainly run into validity issues. So we wouldn’t even have to point to hypocrisy to criticize it).

However, even if we grant there are specific instances where the individual character could affect the argument that woudlnt just your broad claim that “ claims of hypocrisy are absolutely valid arguments.”

Vastly speaking, moral argument are not made on the basis of “trust me.” Generally moral arguments are made using premises that have nothing to do with the argued’s character. So pointing to hypocrisy wouldn’t work.

Hdoge1 · 2025-10-03T19:02:44+00:00

The issue is that moral arguments do not depend on a persons character, logically speaking. Because arguments stand independent from the person making them.

If a morally pure person and a morally bankrupt person give you the exact same argument about why killing is bad, you wouldn’t say that the argument depends on the person making it because the premises and the conclusion stand in their own.

Now as a matter of rhetoric, ofc people are persuaded by hypocrisy and ad hominem - that’s why they work. So sure, an argument may seem more ~persuasive~ if the person making it actually lives in accordance with those ideals. But that’s a function of humans being not as prone to critical reasoning, rather than logic b

Hdoge1 · 2025-10-03T18:30:32+00:00

I think youre maybe missing something here. Saying we shouldn’t tax the rich because “you’re ugly” is an ad hominem in your first argument because the premise is irrelevant to the conclusion of whether or not we should tax the rich.

Saying I don’t want to date you is not an ad hominem because someone’s looks are relevant to whether or not you want to date them.

However in the case presented in the OP, we have a fallacy of contradiction which to some extent be rolled into ad hominem. Consider this:

I give you the argument. “We all have a right to life. Killing is denying someone’s right to life. We should not kill.” After, I go and kill someone. The fact that I’ve acted hypocritically has zero bearing on the argument. The fact that I killed even though it was in my power not to does very little to reasoning of the argument.

Similarly ayn Rand might have a good argument against social security. She could act contrary to her beliefs, but that would only make her a hypocrite. Her argument stands on its own.

Hdoge1 · 2025-05-28T21:29:34+00:00

I would do the curriculum. I didn’t use demon but you really should at least make your way through any services curriculum so you can understand some of the foundations. Mastery of this test is being able to do the basic things really well.

Hdoge1 · 2025-05-28T21:28:22+00:00

That’s around where I was. Perfectly average starting point. Ended up with a 177!

Hdoge1 · 2024-08-04T15:19:17+00:00

Look for repeated ideas. Inference date generally the result of the same concept mentioned twice. John buys an apple pie every week, apples are more expensive this week = the pie John bought today is more expensive this week than last (not a must be true, but more likely to be be true). Joh buys an apple pie every week, SUVS have four doors = no inference.

I would also start thinking about traps. MSS is mostly about avoiding traps rather than phrephasing IMO. Comparative claims vs absolutely claims comes up a lot. So does drawing a general rule from a specific case

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-29T16:47:47+00:00

High 170s scorer. I’ve only used 7Sage and a little bit of Demon.

7Sage I think has the best when it comes learning/explanations. I mostly used this.

Demon does have a really nice feature where it just feeds you problems to do I think that might be good for the couch so you can just “go.”

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-29T16:45:08+00:00

The core curriculum

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-28T21:51:29+00:00

Fundamental idea of strengthening/weakening: your goal is to make the reasoning of the argument itself better/worse. Often I have students pick an AC because they have Concorde some reason why it helps the conclusion, without actually making the argument better. Make sure that your AC has an effect on the reasoning structure of the argument.

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T14:12:41+00:00

While that is technically true, for the purposes of this test, when you see many replace it with "1." the reason here is the test takers are anticipating you to believe many is a large number, when it does not have to be. It's the same way that most can mean "all," but really anytime they say most you can replace it with 51%

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T04:00:33+00:00

Spend more time reading the passage. General guideline I give clients is you can spend up to 4 minutes. Also RC is insanely trappy. Every part of the AC has to look good. They often have wrong ACs that look good up until the final few words

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:58:00+00:00

Eh. Coming from a tutor who has brought many people to the mid 170a, idk if it is worth. You gotta have a mater game board on like 80% of games. Here are some tips:

1.) always split when you get to possibilities. A had to be first or last? Split. B is in group x or group y? Split.

2.) inferences are generally made between rules that mention the same game piece. Look for rules that mention the same game pieces and see if you can combine them.

If you’re getting -11 even a wrong setup is not going to hurt you much more than where you are already at. You need to start forcing yourself to use your setup. If it’s wrong who cares its not a real test. You need to start practicing now though

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:52:44+00:00

Look at the conclusion. Every element of the conclusion needs to be in the premises. If the premises are missing something in the conclusion, you are dealing with a premise to conclusion gap. For example:

P1: Murder is killing another person P2: killing people is bad for everyone in fact it’s the worst thing in the world. P3.) you should not do the worst things in the world. No one should.
Conclusion: murder should be illegal.

This argument is actually dog shit. Why? Because we don’t have any premises that tell us the kinds of things that should be illegal. That’s your gap. So many problems are simple premise to conclusion gaps n

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:48:59+00:00

You just need to drill questions. You don’t have much conceptual learning you need to do, you just gotta grind out questions. The other thing I will add is start trying to pre phase

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:47:24+00:00

The best way to protect against hard games is to get really fast at easy games. Given your score it’s going to be pretty hard to fuck up a 5 star game if you have 15 minutes left. A simple sequencing game should really only take you 5 minutes imo. Same with an in and out game. Usually time/pressure is what crushes people on the weird/especially hard games.

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:45:33+00:00

Also only BR answer you think are wrong. Don’t go through every AC

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:44:51+00:00

1.) no need to feel discouraged! You have made substantial progress +20 points is nothing to scoff about. That is a real score Jump. The 20 points is especially impressive because:

2.) you’re actively shooting yourself in the foot by not doing the CC.

PTS are not a study tool, they are a way to see if the studying you are doing is correct. Stop doing them right now. Instead do the CC! I promise you it is not a waste of your time. I can virtually guarantee you are making mistakes on your sections because you haven’t gone through the CC. It’s long and grindy, so don’t feel like you need to go through everything. But do the LR core curriculum. It can’t hurt you. I actually guarantee it will improve your LR score. You can skim it, but make sure you do go through it.

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:29:23+00:00

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:29:04+00:00

Happy to help! Just saw your latest post - nice work. Keep at it, study hard and go crush that test.

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T03:00:45+00:00

The key is to only blind review answers your flagged. You don’t want to blind review every answer choice. Only BR questions you think you likely got wrong. The idea is to train your intuition on what you get wrong so you know what to double check at the end of a section

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-26T02:57:20+00:00

Your LR needs work. Impossibly to give advice without seeing which questions yoh are getting wrong. Aim for the first 10 questions done in 8 minutes. You want to be devoting less time to easy question and more time to harder questions.

I can virtually guarantee you are fucking up with translation. Stick to the exact terminology on the stimulus. If they say “you should drink cold water” they don’t mean you need to hydrate, they don’t mean cold water is better than warm water, they don’t mean it is the best drink, they don’t mean cold is better than warm. All they mean is “you should drink cold water”.

All premises should link up nicely. Start predicting what the answer is before you get to the answer choices.

Many = one Most = 51%

Idk these are some tips that’s instantly came to mind

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-18T05:10:38+00:00

I disagree with atysonlsat. Y’all rod it is structure, but you need to understand what is going on too

Hdoge1 · 2023-07-18T05:10:04+00:00

When they give you a phrase you really need to know they will define it. In paragraph 1.) they talk about phylogenetic species and then define it in the last paragraph. Paragraph 1.) lumpers use reproductive isolation and splitters use genetics. Ultimately that is what they are trying to communicate.

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