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Ok not to be rude but literally who cares if the moderators asked that the info not be shared. It's kind of annoying to keep info like this behind a pay wall but if anyone who went to the seminar is willing to share the info ($$$) please message me.

They specifically said not to because they want to reward the people who took the time to attend. Plus, sorry, not gonna do Dave and Jon dirty like that.

Yep!

I honed in on (B) within 20 seconds and was almost just going to immediately move on, but I felt compelled to read the other answer choices and ultimately switched my answer to (D)... need to learn to trust my intuition more.

Definitely no more PTs this close to test day! Especially given that your last PT went so well. Ride the high of that PT, and stop studying. If you absolutely feel the need to study, then focus on confidence boosting. Drill some easy games that you've done before and likewise with easy LR questions. Good luck!

This question proves to me how much luck and random variance can help or hurt on this test. As a philosophy major, I had no problem with "epistemology" or this question in general, so I was pretty shocked to see the analytics. I think it all balances it out in the end, but it's still pretty crazy to me how much outside knowledge can play a role in performance.

Also, another way to assess the contradiction issue for this question. Let's say we were trying to define "US politics" and similar to this argument, we decided to use a rudimentary definition of "the political beliefs held by US politicians." Well, of course that set is now going to include contradictory beliefs! Nonetheless, it wouldn't be wrong to say that that set accurately represents US politics (to some degree). Likewise to politics, philosophy is built on contradictory beliefs, so naturally it is completely consistent for a set of philosophical beliefs to contain contradictions because that is intrinsic to what philosophy is.

I laughed out loud when I saw answer choice (B), considering that this exam was administered in May 2020... LSAT writers most definitely knew what they were doing there.