If you're having trouble with confidence errors, I recommend circling for blind review any question in which you can't eliminate all 4 wrong answers for real, substantive reasons. If you're fuzzy on a couple answer choices, you're not fully understa…
No, the stimulus says being intelligible on its own is "a" reason for why European music has had such a strong influence throughout the world, but this is the reason why it is a sophisticated achievement.
The stimulus is defining sophisticated music as music that has so much internal coherence it can stand on its own independent of its original function--dance music can be enjoyed without dancing, for example. So that's the bar for sophistication, ac…
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The conclusion is a some statement because a most statement can always be reworded into a some statement. Some can mean anything from 1 to all (which therefore includes the possibility …
Yup, it is correct. And @amipp170 is right also! Whenever you have A--->B and B-->A (which is what you have here if you take the contrapositive of the second statement), you can make the statements into one biconditional AB.
If you're consistently getting -2, I wouldn't change anything. No need to stress out this late in the process about how something should be done if how it is actually being done is getting you results.
You don't want to get in the habit of using arrows to express a causal relationship. Arrows are a shorthand that express conditionality.
As for your question: if there is a purported causal relationship in which it is said that A causes B, you can…
Answer choice A does not go far enough in strengthening the idea that melatonin isn't helpful for treating insomnia. First of all, a weaker correlation does not necessarily mean a weak correlation; we don't know what the original correlation even is…
Lol like a republican debate, when my name is invoked I have the opportunity to answer...
There are instances in which parallel reasoning questions do not explicitly state that the stimulus is flawed, but the stimulus is nonetheless still flawed. I…
You should find the conclusion on every single question. There is never a conclusion that you should not find. The only questions you do not always have to find the conclusion are must be true and most strongly supported questions, because often tim…
I think it would be circular in this case if the argument was this:
The investigators have not proved that lightning caused the fire. Nor have they proved that campers started the fire. So, the investigators have not proved that the Lightning cause…
I don't think the modern LSAT uses "reject the possibility"; nevertheless, your job should always be to look for the flaw, and it is clear here what the flaw of the argument is: taking the lack of evidence against a theory for proof of its validity.…
"Thus, seafloor spreading not only explained the long standing puzzle of why the ocean basins are so much younger than the continents, but also provided evidence that the plates, and so the continents on them,move."
The realization that the basins …
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Acknowledging that structural inequalities do exist is not the same as excuse making; to imply that they are synonymous is a real danger. Part of the reason why 7sage exists is because an effort was made to acknowledge and rectify the barriers to en…
9: the conclusion is that tobacco companies are wrong when they say adv does not impact smoking habits; the author is arguing that a causal relationship exists. As proof, she says in countries who have restricted ads, smoking as dropped. But she's t…
@josephellengar's explanation is a good one, but in general you don't have to worry too much about the truth and falsity of conditional statements for the test (in terms of truth tables). The only time this really comes up as a test item is when you…
@DumbHollywoodActor @nicole.hopkins if it's good enough I'll bestow upon it my catchers mitt seal of approval. And no this is not just so my name can be attached to the project without me personally doing any of the work...idk why you guys would thi…
@kennedybj circle the questions during the test you aren't 100% confident in. Review them after by eliminating all answer choices for concrete reasons, and selecting the right answer choices for concrete reasons. if you have pdf's, try doing this on…
Hahah @nicole.hopkins and @DumbHollywoodActor, I have book recommendations for dayssss.
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I'm glad you enjoyed The Great Dissent! I'm the one that recommended it lol, I really liked it as well. Hmmm where to go from here.... Quiet by Susan Cain, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabella Wilkerson, and Cultural Evolution by Mesoudi (although t…
So, the company has an obligation to rectify any unfair situation that may have resulted from SOME of the coupons having an incorrect expiration date. This means that some people may have received coupons with a correct expiration date, and it would…
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The issue here is that conditionality and causality are not the same, and so imputing sufficiency onto a causal relationship is incorrect. There is a big difference between saying "smoking causes lung cancer" and "if you smoke, you will …
@DumbHollywoodActor your first piece of advice there is particularly great. And FWIW, I think the only thing unusual about 72 is the last game, everything else seems pretty standard-fare LSAT stuff.
An argument is anything made up of premises and a conclusion; the premises support the conclusion and together the form a whole argument.
Reasoning describes the process by which a speaker arrives at his or her conclusion in an argument. How do th…