@graceouyangg856 I know this is old, but for anyone else struggling with this one, this is also what I thought which led me to select C (I thought it was a false equivalent definition flaw).

If C was right, it would read, "takes for granted that if one is neither self-disparaging nor dismissive of others, then one would be self-accepting and accepting of others."

In other words:

1) not self-disparaging = self-accepting and

2) not dismissive of others = accepting of others

And this is not a conditional, so it's not a situation where it makes sense to take a contrapositive. We're looking to weaken a claim about being more self-accepting and accepting of others. The stimulus actually doesn't say anything about a situation in which someone is not self-accepting and not accepting of others.

With C eliminated, I could see that the correct answer was D, because even if you were not comparing yourself to others, something else (let's just say, for example, mental illness) could still make you non-self accepting and non-accepting of others.

This is one of those cases where finding the flaw first can hurt you because you want to fit the flaw you found into the ACs.

What threw me between C and E was the conflation of the terms "psychological help" and "psychotherapy." On this question, they're assumed to be synonyms. But sometimes the LSAT likes to do a gotcha of "oooooooh but psychological help isn't the same as psychotherapy!" So I was thinking, maybe you could provide psychological help (like, breathing techniques/general advice) in a way that isn't explicitly psychotherapy. In other words--overthought it.

^ thank you! I thought B because I was conflating "theories already embodied in common sense" with "older theories." your second example really helped this one click for me.

This one was stupid; why did it say "organisms" and not "species" grrrrr.

@TeklaCo initially me too but i'm realizing because it's a principle justify it can be stronger than an NA answer. "Only to the extent" definitely unnecessarily tricky though.

On 156 too 😭

@reneevul You can always start by diagramming backwards

@bradley29kc790 I thought exactly the same way when I chose A--e.g. if they weren't in the houses, that means people didn't possess them and tended to always discard them so they were always considered "rubbish" and not "possessions" which would strengthen. But I think that's just way oversupplying the assumption. The real answer is a lot simpler than what we chose--I think you have to remember not everything is a Level 4-5 question, some ACs really just are that easy!

@Stas1973 But dreams don’t necessarily have order or coherence in a narrative sense. Just the fact that it is a recent dream doesn’t necessarily imply order or coherence. But maybe i’m just too into Jungian dream theory for this.

can't believe I got caught in the 19th century trap

I chose A because I read "increase in prosperity" as "increase in lifestyle" so I figured if they were spending more on other stuff then they wouldn't have a more prosperous life... I would've gotten it right if they'd simply used the term "income" and I'm still not totally convinced "prosperity" is a 1:1 synonym to "income" but #whateverLSATwriters #alsothedateswerewrong

@JeremyK only most great chorale preludes written for the organ were by bach, also we still don't know if bach wrote more himself for different instruments

this question was so silly

as an English teacher, this passage can go

@SMRegalado No, because they don't think that having any outdoor seating makes the business likely to fail, they think that lacking indoor seating makes the business likely to fail. For instance, a business could have both outdoor seating and indoor seating. Not the same thing.

I'm a teacher and I study in the evenings for about an hour and take a prep test on the weekend. I make sure to prioritize working out and cooking too. My social life suffers, but no one is a superhero.

@hsuyt25 The Loophole and its consequences. The chapter on Powerful/Provable singlehandedly made my score go down for this reason.

@businessgoose exactly. I think it might be one of those times where the answer is frustrating/would've been better to use POE. I thought it was D originally too.

How do we know that the person guessing presumes the dream has order and coherence? I can see that D is wrong, as the person isn't "interpreting" the dream, but still...

this is the worst RC I've ever taken

my jaw dropped at the low rez summary, well done.