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Maybe I'm not applying the same level of critique to C and D, but I don't see why D is better than C.
I eliminated D as an option because it states that "steady-state economists believe that the optimal sizes of economies are limited by the availability of natural resources". The optimal size is not limited, the size of the economy is limited in order to reach the optimal size.
Does that make sense? To me the flaws in C are not as fundamental as this flaw in D.
The correct answer on this question doesn't make sense to me. The main conclusion of the argument is very narrow, and the answer goes outside the scope of the argument in order to weaken it. Can someone please explain this to me? Maybe in a private message? I'm trying not to break any rules by revealing too much here.
I feel like this answer is simpler than it's made to seem.
The stimulus says "...investment is not decreasing."
(A) says "...investment is decreasing" - so therefore it CANNOT be true. Does the confusion come with the either/or part of the AC?
That happens - I've received a few that way. More often though, I emailed the schools directly. I gave them my LSAT score + GPA and just asked for a fee waiver based on those scores. Some said "sure," some said "you don't qualify." Most said "ask us again in September, once we start accepting applications for 18-19"
I don't understand the "trivially" part that the author is introducing into the claim. Based on the language, the initial claim is not trivial, but the part that the claim is ignoring is trivial.
So is the author combining his addition to the initial claim to create a super-claim then dismissing the whole thing by calling it trivial?
Does that make sense?
I have the impression that passages 3/4 tend to be more difficult than 1/2 - does anyone know if this is the case? Or am I just projecting because I tend to be stressing out as the clock runs by this time?
If 3 & 4 are, in fact, more difficult, would anyone recommend doing them first? Then going back and hitting 1& 2?
In explaining why answer choice D is incorrect, JY says that we don't know what non-artistic poetry is, given the information. I disagree, and maybe someone here can help explain why this answer choice in incorrect. I understand why C is correct - I got it right in the end, but some further explanation into why D is incorrect would be helpful.
The stimulus provides the following information:
1) To be a poem, you must exploit musical characteristics of language
2) A limerick exploits some musical characteristics of language
3) A limerick is not art
If a limerick is a poem, but not art, it must be a non-artistic poem. Answer choice D.
Where is the flaw in this logic?