The exercise involves the critical analysis of an argument, step by step.

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Researchers have uncovered some evidence that certain foods stimulate more dopamine release in mammals than others--critical to the legal argument that those foods are unreasonably addictive and dangerous--but their findings are tentative or difficult to replicate in humans.

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But the helicopter story was more than a convenient simplification, it represented a critical assumption without which the argument no longer makes sense.

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But you overlook a critical flaw in the film's argument.

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Show me the critical response that did not just evade the logical argument rather than answer it.

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The current argument that raising taxes now is a critical requirement for increasing Federal tax revenues is just not credible.

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Today, President Hollande has the backing of nearly all the political class, because in the main people buy his argument that the situation in Mali had become critical.

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So a good deal of the rhetoric and argument in this case on these and other issues must be viewed with a critical eye.

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