ohh okay this makes sense, thank you.

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hey! I think inside the exception means that there is a legitimate medical service, while outside the exception means that there is no legitimate medical service. so he's talking about the domains, or the worlds, you're in. if you are in the world where you do not have a pet serving a legitimate medical service, then the residents cannot keep pets. If you are in the world where they do, or in the world of the exception, the rule does not trigger and we cannot tell anything, because according to the rule (/prohibit -> /PA, PA -> LMP), we have only satisfied a necessary condition. We only know for sure what happens when we are in a world that is NOT the exception, or a world where no one has a pet serving a legitimate medical need, because that is the world a sufficient condition is triggered.

I probably didn't explain it well, but that's what I got from this, and I've been trying to master logic for a very long time. It's tedious and requires you to keep reviewing and coming back to the lessons. Hope this helps, but feel free to tell me if something sounds wrong here or confusing.

I diagrammed this correctly but for some reason I had such a difficult time translating the last answer choice

I doubted myself and overthought. damn it.

all of these hard questions just seem like you need to be in line with a certain way of thinking...they all just seem so controversial to me and they all seem to go against everything I've learned thus far :(

why would we not address the actual conclusion of the argument? isn't the conclusion about FUNDING, and why it wouldn't warrant funding to protect the planet from meteorite strikes?

*we can conclude with certainty that mercury has no effect.

for me, i reasoned that lack of evidence does not imply evidence of lacking, and that's the case for the first one. just because <1% smoked doesn't mean its evidence that the ads dont affect smoking with CERTAINTY. then in the parallel answer, the same lack of evidence was trying to be pushed onto us, saying that because only 1,000 dolphins don't show the effect of the mercury, we can't conclude with certainty that mercury has no effect. i could be wrong in this thinking, though.

the way they always try to bamboozle you into not choosing the correct answer by using complicated language...this is just like being in a voting booth fr

I feel that the hardest thing about these questions are remembering that answer choices can be powerful and to avoid just restating the premises, and so this allows us to make reasonable inferences/jumps when answering in a way that's not the case for necessary assumption. I am so scared of choosing really powerful answers because I'm so used to most answers having to follow the exact wording of the stimulus/having to stick close to the stimulus.

insane question and yet more evidence this test is evil

https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/forums/q12-biologists-have-noted-reproductive-abnormalities-in-fi-t462.html?sid=05d5e540d79f2ccbd636887176d59ce2

here is a link that if you fully read will better help you understand this question

just to let you guys know, this is a very controversial question and statements had to be released on it lol

LOL I just finished doing a section untimed where this was VERY important

is this an argument or just a set of premises? #help

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i got this correct but then changed it to the wrong thing. does that usually just mean I need to not doubt my reasoning?

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question dragged me by the hair and beat me down

One way to see this is by anticipating the correct answer and checking to see if the answer was close

wait, I thought "not many" implied "not some." Since when did "many" imply "most"? #help #feedback

is there a way to do these problems before the lesson? or is the purpose to not answer beforehand? #help

Do you have to understand necessary assumption to get this question? Because I'm having a super difficult time with it.

DAMNIT

i struggle with these types of questions so much

I think the assumption for D was more that people who raised tobacco would like it and want to smoke it. I didn't think it's purely chosen by people who think it's good.