Gwen plays basketball and soccer and has performed adequately in the two sports. She thinks she should learn a new sport. She expects to be adequate at it, given her performance in the other sports. Would her argument be stronger, weaker, or neither if she decided that she would undertake special training to excel at the new sport?

What will be an ideal response?


Weaker. This seems counterintuitive, but the argument for this scenario would change. The argument would be that special training is required for Gwen to excel at sports. However, the additional details would weaken the given argument due to the difference in the premise-analogue and the conclusion-analogue.

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