I am having a hard time reading even the LR stimuli because they are so badly written most of the time; is there more information digging into how to pick apart the terrible writing and turn it into proper English? I have a BA in Ethics/Philosophy with a minor in Technical Writing. I have also spent a decade writing engineering and legal documents for major corporations. And OMG this reminds me of the worst writing I have ever read. Now, according to the AI (which I am taking with a two ton boulder of salt) this is the entire point of the LSAT. I know I don't have perfect grammar myself, and I absolutely have room to improve in my own writing; but some of these are practically unintelligible. I feel like every single passage needs to bleed with red ink before its even readable.
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I am shocked that you spent a decade writing legal documents and hate LSAT writing. And what about your metaphysics class in philosophy lol? Didn't they write even worse?
@antitrust_fan No, comparatively metaphysics is straight forward. In fact I got 90+% in all four of my metaphysics classes and I have no idea what most of these questions are talking about. Honestly, these questions absolutely reflect the worst legal documents I have ever read. I worked in Engineering, so our legal documents were almost entirely either contracts or instructions. These read like the instructions that made machines explode regularly or resulted in OSHA violations regularly. According to the AI bot, that is intentional because most people write so terribly that the skill is figuring out what it is they are even trying to talk about.
I need to draw one of four conclusions from this apparently: 1) my degree is meaningless and all of my classes were a sham, 2) the questions are intentionally obtuse, or 3) all of my experience was meaningless and I failed at everything I ever worked on and somehow made a career or, lastly 4) there is a link between what the questions intend and what I am interpreting.
I feel like every single writer needs to spend a few years doing only the "Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich Exercise", you write instructions step by step on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then have someone pretend that they have no idea what peanut butter, jelly, or sandwiches are and try to make one by only following your instructions. Most people absolutely fail the first like ten times.
Metaphysics is entirely simile or metaphor, most of metaphysics (except like maybe Hegel and some of Nietzsche) is just the author comparing two phenomena and then telling you how they are different. They start by drawing the overlapping set, then telling you all they things that are in one set, the other, or neither. Its almost entirely operant logic: P implies Q, therefore R; If X Then Y, ect.