LSAT 135 – Section 2 – Question 12
LSAT 135 - Section 2 - Question 12
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PT135 S2 Q12 |
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| Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw Net Effect +NetEff Eliminating Options +ElimOpt Value Judgment +ValJudg | A
6%
157
B
0%
150
C
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155
D
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151
E
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124 135 146 |
+Easier | 146.729 +SubsectionMedium |
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that historians should interpret what people who participated in historical events thought about those events, instead of trying to interpret the historical events themselves. This is because historians always have biases that affect their work.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author assumes that the people who participated in historical events do not always have biases that affect their work. This overlooks the possibility that focusing on interpreting what people who participated in historical events thought would result in work that is equally biased as work based on the historian’s own interpretations.
A
historians who have different biases often agree about many aspects of some historical events
The fact that historians might often agree doesn’t change the fact that their work is always biased. The author wants historians to avoid such bias; the author didn’t assume that there’s never any agreement.
B
scholars in disciplines other than history also risk having their biases affect their work
Whether scholars other than historians are biased has no effect on whether historians should rely on the accounts of people who participated in events for their work. There’s no indication that the people who participated in events are scholars in other disciplines.
C
many of the ways in which historians’ biases affect their work have been identified
We already know historians are biased. The author wants to avoid those biases. Identification of those biases doesn’t affect the argument unless we have some reason to think we can remove those biases.
D
not all historians are aware of the effect that their particular biases have on their work
We already know historians are biased. If historians are not aware of those biases, that doesn’t constitute a reason why they should not focus on interpreting the accounts of people who participated in events.
E
the proposed shift in focus is unlikely to eliminate the effect that historians’ biases have on their work
This possibility, if true, shows that the author’s recommended solution doesn’t make any more sense than having historians themselves interpret historical events. Work based on their own interpretations might be biased, but so will work based on others’ interpretations.
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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
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- Question 15
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- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
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Section 4 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
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