https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-75-section-3-question-04/

So for some reason I treated this as conditional question.

So I thought

Premise: (stimulus)

A (sickly birds)→(generally )smaller spleens

killed by predators→(generally) smaller spleens

Conclusion: (answer choice) (D)

Sickly birds→(generally)killed by predators

Assumption

killed by predators→(generally) sickly birds

....I was confused.

I should not use conditional signals for "generally" or "likely" sentences?

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2 comments

  • Friday, Sep 23 2016

    Hi, thanks for your reply, @r789

    I was wondering...is "generally"="most"?

    If so, I thought from the stimulus maybe we could say sickly→[some] killed by predators

    Most+Most=some...right?

    But then this contradicts to what the stimulus says ("most" killed...)

    or We Generally≠Most?

    Am I just thinking too much? :(

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  • Friday, Sep 23 2016

    I don't think it's ok to use conditional for "generally" or "likely" sentences.

    Conditional (A->B) means when there is A, B is there too. 100%.

    You can think about our famous example that Jedi and force users.

    'Every Jedi generally uses a force' is nothing like 'Every Jedi uses a force'.

    'generally' or 'likely', 'some' 'most' 'might' 'may' 'could' ... these 'possibility' or 'probability' types are not 100%. So it's not working with conditionals.

    Hope this helps :)

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