The opponents first strategic decision is to
(a) determine whether to accept the advocate's primary inference as topical.
(b) decide how to employ presumption to refute the advocate's case.
(c) determine whether to use strategies of denial and extenuation to dispute the
advocate's case.
(d) decide how to deal with any preemptive arguments the advocate has offered.
A
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