LSAT 112 – Section 4 – Question 21

LSAT 112 - Section 4 - Question 21

December 2001

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT112 S4 Q21
+LR
+Exp
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
1%
160
B
9%
163
C
13%
161
D
6%
160
E
71%
168
149
158
167
 +Harder 142.561 +SubsectionEasier

Tina: For centuries oceans and human eccentricity have been linked in the literary and artistic imagination. Such linkage is probably due to the European Renaissance practice of using ships as asylums for the socially undesirable.

Sergio: No. Oceans have always been viewed as mysterious and unpredictable—qualities that people have invariably associated with eccentricity.

Speaker 1 Summary
Tina believes that the link between oceans and human eccentricity is probably due to the Renaissance practice of using ships as asylums. She doesn’t provide any support for this belief; she simply asserts that it’s true without providing a premise.

Speaker 2 Summary
Sergio concludes that the linkage between oceans and human eccentricity is not due to the practice of using ships as asylums. Oceans and human eccentricity have always been linked to each other, even before that practice emerged.

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about the origin of the link between oceans and human eccentricity. Tina thinks the link is due to the practice of using ships as asylums. Sergio does not think this is the origin.

A
Eccentric humans were considered socially undesirable during the European Renaissance.
Sergio doesn’t express an opinion. He doesn’t comment on people during the Renaissance or how they might have been viewed.
B
Oceans have always been viewed as mysterious and unpredictable.
Tina expresses no opinion about this. She comment about the linkage between oceans and human eccentricity. But she doesn’t comment on whether oceans have been viewed as mysterious and unpredictable.
C
The linkage between oceans and eccentricity explains the European Renaissance custom of using ships as asylums.
Sergio expresses no opinion. He believes the linkage did not result from ships as asylums. But whether the practice of ships as asylums resulted from the linkage is not discussed. (Tina probably disagrees with this answer, but it doesn’t matter, since Sergio has no opinion.)
D
People have never attributed the same qualities to oceans and eccentrics.
Tina expresses no opinion. She doesn’t comment on any of the qualities of oceans or whether they have been attributed to people.
E
The linkage between oceans and eccentricity predates the European Renaissance.
There is support for a disagreement. Tina thinks the origin of the linkage was a practice in the Renaissance. Sergio believes humans have “invariably” associated qualities of the ocean with eccentricity. To him, this suggests the linkage existed before the Renaissance.

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