For everyone confused about “ontology”, take it from a guy who studied Amazonology (ethnographic studies in the context of Amazonian peoples) in Ecuador: replace the word with “world view” or “cosmovision”; it is a very imprecise substitute, but it is the best we came up with.
@Jordanabel Pretty sure. I remember him saying that in one of the intro to RC lessons, but during the test some students said the search bar was too laggy.
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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For everyone confused about “ontology”, take it from a guy who studied Amazonology (ethnographic studies in the context of Amazonian peoples) in Ecuador: replace the word with “world view” or “cosmovision”; it is a very imprecise substitute, but it is the best we came up with.
Are we able to search up a specific word on the official test like in LawHub?
@Jordanabel Pretty sure. I remember him saying that in one of the intro to RC lessons, but during the test some students said the search bar was too laggy.
"if you say you know what ontology means, I will not believe you" lol
I am feeling so much more confident on these :)
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.
@tortellinibrain It's like, sometimes you have to scrutinize the wording super carefully, and sometimes you just can't overthink. :P
are we allowed to use control F on the real LSAT?
I had the same question! And yes, there is a word search built into the LSAT,
on the top of the LSAT there is a search bar for words, they go over it in a previous lesson
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.
When did they get rid of it? I didn't know that!!!!
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))
that's why you gotta do the double philosophy/english route, just to get the logic AND the critical theory jargon lmao
Seriously! I had the worst contemp criticism and theory literature course a few years ago which is 100% helping me out now
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
think about it like the idea of being; the understanding/concept of being
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.
It's fine to just say "because it's not X" when the question is one where you know what the correct answer should say or the range of correct answers.