PT58.S4.Q19 - Anyone who believes in democracy

LsatDrifter

When doing this question I realize the gap between Wisdom of the masses and Artwork. But after becoming impatient I guess and chose E and moved on. I looked over my diagramming and did the question a second time and got D, I noticed that it was a little off and was hoping someone could walk me through this with a diagram, so I can compare it to mine and figure out how B is the right answer?

https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-58-section-4-question-19/

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BinghamtonDave

The general form for this argument is that:
Believe democracy——>High regard wisdom’

We know that our particular case:
believes that a work of art that is popular is unlikely to be good

Therefore we conclude:
our particular case:
Believe in democracy

This is a contrapositive argument form.
We are given as a general rule:
A——>B
We are told something about a person: lets call that Z
We conclude A
The sufficient assumption here is that if someone is an elitist who believes Z then that person fails the necessary condition of believing in democracy: ie high regard for wisdom of masses. Allowing us to contrapose back to:
Believe in democracy
Best exemplified in (B)

An analogous argument might be something like this:
Anyone who is a good mixed martial artist has a well rounded set of skills that encompass the important disciplines.
David has never wrestled in his life
Therefore David is not a good mixed martial artist

The possession of no wrestling experience fails the necessary condition of good mixed martial artist: a well rounded set of skills that encompass the important discipline, and is thus our sufficient assumption.

Form you want to memorize to make this process easier in the future:
A---->B
We are given a C
We conclude:
A

Sufficient assumption: C---->B

David

LsatDrifter

omg, I feel like an idiot!!! when you translated it to C--->B I had that translation but scratched it out.

BinghamtonDave

@LsatDrifter no worries, every mistake we make we can learn from.