Necessary Assumptions

10:00 AM–11:00 AM EDT
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Led by Henry Ewing
LEVEL Intermediate

Necessary Assumption questions ask you to find the assumption the argument depends on. This class will teach you how to identify what’s required for the argument to hold up. We'll break down the strategies to spot the essential assumption, so you can tackle these questions quickly and accurately!

**Difficulty:** 2-5 stars
**Pace:** 3-6 Questions

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177
Meet Henry

Henry has a BA and an MA in philosophy from Tulane University.  Over multiple years of tutoring, Henry has tutored individual students and taught group classes, resulting in multiple 180 scores.  

Henry’s philosophy is that, while hard, the LSAT is fundamentally simple.  Henry prefers to use analogies to illustrate that even the toughest LSAT questions can be made straightforward.  Henry likes helping students work through conditional reasoning, necessary assumption negation, and most strongly supported questions.  

Outside of tutoring, Henry enjoys running, swimming, and reading science fiction.

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