LSAT 133 – Section 2 – Question 19

LSAT 133 - Section 2 - Question 19

June 2011

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT133 S2 Q19
+LR
+Exp
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Kick It Up +KIU
A
3%
161
B
11%
163
C
11%
161
D
71%
166
E
4%
162
139
153
168
 +Harder 147.633 +SubsectionMedium

Style manual: Archaic spellings and styles of punctuation in direct quotations from older works are to be preserved if they occur infrequently and do not interfere with a reader’s comprehension. However, if they occur frequently, the editor may modernize them, inserting a note with an explanation to this effect in the text, or if similar modernizing has been done in more than one quotation, inserting a general statement in the preface. On the other hand, obvious typographical errors in quotations from modern works may be corrected without explanation.

Summary

The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

If an older work contains frequent archaic spellings or styles of punctuation in direct quotations, the editor may modernize said spellings or styles.

A
If an editor corrects the spelling of a quoted word and the word occurs only once in the text, then an explanation should appear in a note or in the text.

Could be false. If the word in question was misspelled by an obvious typographical error and if the work it’s quoted in was modern, the editor may correct the spelling without explanation.

B
An editor may modernize an archaic spelling of a word found in a modern work without providing an explanation.

Could be false. The only rule we have about editing modern works is that it’s okay to correct obvious typographical errors without explanation. We have no information about when or how it might be acceptable to modernize an archaic spelling of a word in a modern work.

C
An editor should modernize an archaic spelling of a word that is quoted from an older work if the spelling interferes with reader comprehension.

Could be false. We only know that an editor may modernize an archaic spelling of a word that is quoted from an older work if the archaic spelling occurs frequently. We also don’t have any information about whether or not the editor actually should do so.

D
An editor may modernize punctuation directly quoted from an older work if that punctuation occurs frequently and interferes with reader comprehension.

Must be true. As shown below, by chaining the conditional claims, we see that “may modernize” is a necessary condition of “frequent occurrence.” As long as the punctuation occurs frequently, we know that the editor may modernize it.

E
If an editor modernizes only one of several similar instances of quoted archaic punctuation, an explanation should appear in the preface of the work.

Could be false. We know that if an editor modernizes more than one similar instance of quoted archaic punctuation, that editor should include a general statement in the preface. But that’s not a requirement if only one modernization was made.

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