LSAT 110 – Section 2 – Question 12

LSAT 110 - Section 2 - Question 12

June 2001

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PT110 S2 Q12
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Weaken +Weak
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
76%
167
B
6%
163
C
13%
163
D
1%
158
E
4%
164
124
144
164
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The five senses have traditionally been viewed as distinct yet complementary. Each sense is thought to have its own range of stimuli that are incapable of stimulating the other senses. However, recent research has discovered that some people taste a banana and claim that they are tasting blue, or see a color and say that it has a specific smell. This shows that such people, called synesthesiacs, have senses that do not respect the usual boundaries between the five recognized senses.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author hypothesizes that some people have unusual distinctions between their five senses. Why? Because some people reacting to a stimulus in one sense claim to have an experience in a different sense, contrary to the way senses are traditionally understood.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the people studied are telling the truth about their sense experiences and have the capability to accurately represent them. He further assumes their sense experiences are unusual in the sense that most people are not synesthesiacs.

A
Synesthesiacs demonstrate a general, systematic impairment in their ability to use and understand words.
This suggests some people studied failed to report their experiences accurately. If synesthesiacs struggle to use words, they may have normal sense experiences but simply describe them in an unusual way.
B
Recent evidence strongly suggests that there are other senses besides sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste.
The author does not assume there are only five senses. The existence of other senses does not explain why some people apparently confound stimuli between the five traditional senses.
C
The particular ways in which sensory experiences overlap in synesthesiacs follow a definite pattern.
This is not grounds for denying that those experiences are unusual. The group of all synesthesiacs can have sense experiences that are internally consistent but still very different from those of the general population.
D
The synesthetic phenomenon has been described in the legends of various cultures.
This does not imply that synesthesiacs are misrepresenting their experiences or that their experiences are typical. It’s possible synesthetic experiences are unusual in those cultures as well.
E
Synesthesiacs can be temporarily rid of their synesthetic experiences by the use of drugs.
This suggests a remedy for those experiences—it doesn’t imply they don’t exist. Synesthetic experiences are not made typical simply because using drugs can make them go away temporarily.

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