In Strengthen Questions, how are the answer choices treated?

• A. They are ignored
• B. They are used to counter the argument
• C. They are tested for logical necessity
• D. They are treated as TRUTH

Answer: (D)

In Strengthen questions, you evaluate how the candidate information would affect the argument by treating the option as true and seeing if it makes the conclusion more likely or better supported. The right choice is the one that, if assumed true, directly strengthens the link between the premises and the conclusion or fills a gap in the reasoning.

So, the correct idea is that the answer choices are treated as truth to test their impact on the argument’s strength. The other ideas don’t fit: ignoring the options isn’t how these questions work, using a choice to counter the argument would be a weaken-type move, and testing for logical necessity describes a different angle of evaluation than simply seeing whether adding the truth strengthens the argument.