LSAT 119 – Section 2 – Question 23
LSAT 119 - Section 2 - Question 23
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT119 S2 Q23 |
+LR
| Sufficient assumption +SA Conditional Reasoning +CondR Link Assumption +LinkA | A
11%
160
B
7%
157
C
4%
156
D
64%
166
E
15%
160
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149 158 168 |
+Harder | 144.676 +SubsectionEasier |
J.Y.’s explanation
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The question stem reads: The Conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? This is a Sufficient Assumption question.
Love is complicated in the real world, which is no different than love in the LSAT. It's possible to love someone and not be loved back. Unfortunately, love is not a biconditional. My previous relationships confirm that. While reading this stimulus, it is essential to see which "way" the love is going. Are you loving or being loved? The stimulus is short and conditional heavy, so let's break these down as we go. The stimulus starts with "whoever is kind is loved by somebody or another." This translates into the lawgic:
kind -> loved by someone
Next, the stimulus claims that "whoever loves anyone is happy." This translated into the lawgic:
Love anyone -> happy
The argument concludes, "Whoever is kind is happy." Translated:
Kind -> happy
Let's organize this argument into:
P1: Kind -> loved by someone
P2: Love anyone -> happy
______________________________________________
C: Kind -> happy
We can kick up the sufficient condition so we now have:
P3: Kind
P1: Kind -> loved by someone
P2: Love anyone -> happy
______________________________________________
C: Happy
We want to get to "happy," and P2 will get us there if we can satisfy "love anyone." Let's make that our necessary condition: (__) -> love anyone. Now we need to find a sufficient condition that will be satisfied by the argument. Notice how P3 satisfies the sufficient condition of P1, so we can infer that "loved by someone" occurs. Let's make "loved by someone" the sufficient condition of conditional: loved by someone -> love anyone. Now we have a valid argument:
P3: Kind
P1: Kind -> loved by someone
SA: Loved by someone -> love anyone
P2: Love anyone -> happy
______________________________________________
C: Happy
P3 will trigger P1, P1 triggers our SA, and our SA will trigger P2, which brings us to the desired conclusion of "happy." Happy is exactly what we are because we just solved this four-star problem. Let's move to the answer choices.
Answer Choice (A) is incorrect. If you picked (A), you likely misread P1 and thought that being kind meant you loved someone. You can rule out (A) quickly by seeing we are missing the concept of "loved by."
Answer Choice (B) is also out. You can rule out (B) because we are missing the concept of "loved by."
Answer Choice (C) is also out. We want to get to "happy," but (C) has "happy" in sufficient condition; we can rule (C) out.
Correct Answer Choice (D) is the contrapositive of our prephase. (D) translate to:
Loves no one -> loved by no one
We take the contrapositive:
/(loved by no one) -> /(loves no one)
Not being loved by no one means you are loved by someone. Not loving no one means you love someone. So we get our SA: "Loved by someone -> love anyone."
Answer Choice (E) is the most popular wrong answer. If you picked (E), you likely thought that (E) would let you infer "loves everyone." "Loves everyone" would satisfy "loves anyone" and deliver you to "happy." The problem with (E) is that it has "Kind" in the necessary. Remember, satisfying the necessary condition has no effect on the sufficient condition.
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LSAT PrepTest 119 Explanations
Section 1 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 3 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
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- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
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- Question 22
- Question 23
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