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Hey guys, how do I differentiate "infer" vs "properly infer" in LR? I understood "infer" to mean Most Strongly Supported and "properly infer" to mean Must Be True. Am I right here?
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Hey guys, how do I differentiate "infer" vs "properly infer" in LR? I understood "infer" to mean Most Strongly Supported and "properly infer" to mean Must Be True. Am I right here?
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@Kevin_Lin and I have nerded out about these tiny differences in wording a few times, but the bottom line is you should just treat them all like MBT.
@MichaelWright Thank you for your quick response, Mike! But in older PTs, like the one in PT2.S2.Q24, "infer" was being used to mean MSS, I think (I chose C not E, because Most could mean "All" but not "not All")? Should I be concerned about it? So in newer PTs, I should just treat both of them as MBT? Thanks in advance.
@MikeP rofl nice. first off what in the fresh hell are you doing looking at PT2?!? i had to whip out my old pdfs. (although it turns out the question you're talking about is featured in what they now call PTF97: PTF97.S2.Q24)
Also good job forcing me to explicate the nuance I was trying to gloss over. This is indeed a case where the correct answer doesn't 100% have to be true, for the exact reason you described. There isn't a difference (that we've noticed) between "inferred" and "properly inferred", though, because we've found examples of "properly inferred" questions that act like MSS too. That's part of why we give "inference" questions (which includes both "infer" and "properly infer") a different tag.
The inference / MBT distinction isn't a mere relic of the past -- there are recent examples too, they're just super rare. the vast majority of times, "inference" questions are MBT questions. Sometimes they're technically MSS, but if your ass is smart enough to pick out those finely-distinguished outliers, you should be smart enough to get those questions right anyway using the MSS standard and process of elimination.
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@MichaelWright Hey Mike! Nice name lol Sorry about the trouble. But your clear explanation really cut through the noise I was trapped in... for like a week. I didn't know who to ask or what to think about it. Finally, I got the answer I was looking for Thanks! Subscribing to 7sage is the best move I have made in this LSAT journey.
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