I was confused because the question asked for an essential characteristic of Western ontology, and I read the part of the passage like it was specifically talking A Western ontology of many Western ontologies, I did not know the definition of ontology, and how that specific one was based on self-expression. With that interpretation, it was hard to choose (C) as the correct answer.
I'm going to have to thank a certain professor in Germany, that I took a class with, who got me hooked on theoretical philosophy with a focus on the ontology of how literally everything we know is made up of relations from one thing to another. You cannot describe any one thing or characteristic in a vacuum without something else to give it context.
If there is anyone out there still in college but studying early for the LSAT, please take some higher-level philosophy classes. I promise you it'll do you well. Introductory philosophy classes I wouldn't recommend. Take at least one class on epistemology and one on ontology. I swear to everything that it will help your critical thinking skills for the rest of your classes and other things beyond college.
If you're afraid of not having enough background knowledge to attend these classes, please don't be. I've found that almost every philosophy class is almost completely self-contained.
finally my philosophy degree proves to be useful ((i've only ever known "ontology" as a branch of philosophy and had merely a vague understanding of this word in this passage's context))
I have question about blind review. I've noticed on many questions in LR and RC such as this one that the answer is obviously X. Do I still need to go through all the other answer choices explaining why each answer is wrong? Or can I just do what you did and say because it's not X.
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I have heard people use ontology several times in my life but always forget what it means after looking it up
I was confused because the question asked for an essential characteristic of Western ontology, and I read the part of the passage like it was specifically talking A Western ontology of many Western ontologies, I did not know the definition of ontology, and how that specific one was based on self-expression. With that interpretation, it was hard to choose (C) as the correct answer.
are we allowed to use control F on the real LSAT?
Control F came up clutch on this one
I know what ontology means!
(I googled it)
I'm going to have to thank a certain professor in Germany, that I took a class with, who got me hooked on theoretical philosophy with a focus on the ontology of how literally everything we know is made up of relations from one thing to another. You cannot describe any one thing or characteristic in a vacuum without something else to give it context.
If there is anyone out there still in college but studying early for the LSAT, please take some higher-level philosophy classes. I promise you it'll do you well. Introductory philosophy classes I wouldn't recommend. Take at least one class on epistemology and one on ontology. I swear to everything that it will help your critical thinking skills for the rest of your classes and other things beyond college.
If you're afraid of not having enough background knowledge to attend these classes, please don't be. I've found that almost every philosophy class is almost completely self-contained.
I wonder what the reasoning was on why they decided to not de-activate the search feature in the test software. I am not complaining, just curious.
finally my philosophy degree proves to be useful ((i've only ever known "ontology" as a branch of philosophy and had merely a vague understanding of this word in this passage's context))
The word "ontology" got me cry
Guys, I looked up the definition of ontology. It's the "study of existence". Which is confusing in itself
I have question about blind review. I've noticed on many questions in LR and RC such as this one that the answer is obviously X. Do I still need to go through all the other answer choices explaining why each answer is wrong? Or can I just do what you did and say because it's not X.