Wow this little trick has been incredibly helpful!!! Thank you!

I did the same exact thing!! And I'm so frustrated because it's like when are we supposed to make an assumption and when are we not?!

It's like on some questions we can make an assumption to get the right answer to be correct but then on others we aren't -- I HATE THE LSAT!

I completely agree - the claim that whoever wrote it did NOT have a copy of Hamlet makes it very difficult to believe that an actor of the play wrote it - I think any actor of a play needs to memorize their lines and thus would need to have access to a copy.

Whereas a spectator could NOT have a copy of the play, then we make the simple assumption that they were a spectator of the play numerous times - not that unreasonable of an assumption - and hence they wrote the abrdigement with the lines correct for one of the characters whom they liked but the rest was pretty slipshod.

To say that this answer with this assumption is weaker than the assumption that an actor didn't have a copy of the play that they were in -- seems way more far fetched - regardless of the time period. Even in the 17th century actors had to somehow have a copy to learn their lines - I really feel like this answer is wrong.

I completely agree - the claim that whoever wrote it did NOT have a cop of Hamlet makes it very difficult to believe that an actor of the play wrote it - I think any actor of a play needs to memorize their lines and thus would need to have access to a copy.

Whereas a spectator could NOT have a copy of the play, then we make the simple assumption that they were a spectator of the play numerous times - not that unreasonable of an assumption - and hence they wrote the abrdigement with the lines correct for one of the characters whom they liked but the rest was pretty slipshod.

To say that this answer with this assumption is weaker than the assumption that an actor didn't have a copy of the play that they were in -- seems way more far fetched - regardless of the time period. Even in the 17th century actors had to somehow have a copy to learn their lines - I really feel like this answer is wrong.

I completely agree - the claim that whoever wrote it did NOT have a cop of Hamlet makes it very difficult to believe that an actor of the play wrote it - I think any actor of a play needs to memorize their lines and thus would need to have access to a copy.

Whereas a spectator could NOT have a copy of the play, then we make the simple assumption that they were a spectator of the play numerous times - not that unreasonable of an assumption - and hence they wrote the abrdigement with the lines correct for one of the characters whom they liked but the rest was pretty slipshod.

To say that this answer with this assumption is weaker than the assumption that an actor didn't have a copy of the play that they were in -- seems way more far fetched - regardless of the time period. Even in the 17th century actors had to somehow have a copy to learn their lines - I really feel like this answer is wrong.

I hate you so much LSAT!!!!!!!

Fucking Pat!!!!