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I am really struggling to see how answer choice E resolves the paradox best and not D -- E seems to be irrelevant and D does a good job of explaining the different reactions of voters.>
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mdefelice624
Tuesday, Nov 01 2022
Hey Gerald,
The best answer I was able to find was actually in the PowerScore Logical Reasoning Bible. On pages 291-292 (of the edition for the 2022 LSAT), it says that the speaker in the stimulus, when making a causal connection, always believes that the cause is the only possible cause of the effect. Since the conclusion of the stimulus is that this practice of exporting certain pesticides increased (causes) health risks, the speaker, according to the rule I mentioned, assumes that the practice of exporting is the only possible cause of the increased health risks.
I agree with you that it still seems bizarre, and I recognize that I am basically taking this on faith, but JY also seems to refer to the same concept in his explanation of C at the very end of the video -- he says that the speaker is assuming the only cause of the increased health risks is the practice of exporting banned pesticides.
So, unless somebody wants to correct me, I am going to go with the PowerScore people in holding that this assumption is indeed the case.
Hope this helps.
mdefelice624
Wednesday, Sep 28 2022
Why doesn't C weaken the conclusion by suggesting that disease X is the cause of larger than normal IS size, and not the other way around? #help
This is basically a weaken question with a conditional.
To weaken a conditional, you need to show that the necessary condition is not really necessary.
The conditional is basically "if the instructions were available, it would be easier to put it together than if they were not"
So a correct answer choice might do something like say "if the instructions were available, it would not necessarily be easier than without"
Answer choice C suggests that it would not necessarily be easier to assemble with the instructions than without them. Hence, it undercuts the conditional in the principle. Consider that if there is a sliding scale of difficulty, the lowest possible difficulty could probably be described as "very easy".
C would have been more obviously correct if it said "most consumers who assemble it do so as easily as conceivably possible and without ever consulting the manufacturer's instructions." Nevertheless, if you did something "as easily as conceivably possible", would you not also say that it was "very easy"?