PT76.S2.Q24 - it has been said that

tjphilbrick

https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-76-section-2-question-24/

We are looking for a necessary assumption.
The conditional for the first sentence is: write in order to give pleasure  /impart truth. However, the conclusion of the argument is that this conditional is not true. They say that if this conditional was true, then you could take any popular book on the shelf and the conditional would be: popular  gave people pleasure  /impart truth. To do this, you would have to assume that if a book gives people pleasure, then it would have to have been written in order to give people pleasure. Just insert the original conditional in right in front of the “/impart truth” part of the equation.
This was counter-intuitive for me because I was immediately looking for a bridge to the conclusion of the stimulus, which is that those who write in order to give pleasure CAN impart truth to their readers. This one is tricky because it is asking you to look for the NA in a part of the stimulus that you’re not used to looking for it.

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Cant Get Right

@danielznelson , I believe this one is for you!

danielznelson

@"Cant Get Right" Haha, yeah, we were just talking about it. He had no idea I had been going over this question myself. This explanation sums up the issue nicely!