PT23.S2.Q14 - Kim: In northern Europe during the eighteenth

shegotit

Can someone please help me understand what the stimulus is saying.

https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-23-section-2-question-14/

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s_jricke

@shegotit said:
Can someone please help me understand what the stimulus is saying.

https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-23-section-2-question-14/

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Kim is basically saying that people changed their attitudes about something, specifically death, and she attributes this change to life expectancies being increased during that time. Lee calls out an implicit necessary assumption of Kim's argument, which is that people would have had to been aware their life expectancies were increasing to affect their attitudes. Lee, himself, implies (to my understanding) that it would be really hard to know anything about a major increase in life expectancies before one actually died or were nearing the end of one's life (even then, just because one was outliving current life expectancies wouldn't tell that person anything about an overall trend over something that takes multiple generations to confirm).

akistotle

Just so you know, there are other threads about this question:

https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/3360/pt23-s2-q14-kim-in-northern-europe-during-the-18th-century
https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/3414/pt23-s2-q14-kim-in-northern-europe-during-the-18th-century
https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/4813/pt23-s2-q14-kim-in-northern-europe-during-the-18th-century
https://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/11334/pt23-s2-q14-kim-in-northern-europe-during-the-18th-century

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