LSAT 157 – Section 3 – Question 21

LSAT 157 - Section 3 - Question 21

June 2020

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT157 S3 Q21
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
4%
155
B
18%
151
C
10%
152
D
15%
152
E
54%
162
145
156
167
 +Harder 145.111 +SubsectionEasier

Orator: Moral excellence can be achieved only by repeatedly overcoming inclinations to do the wrong thing. Overcoming these inclinations is often difficult to do, even for a morally virtuous person, but the only way to become a morally virtuous person is through the achievement of moral excellence.

Summary

The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

If one is morally virtuous, then one has repeatedly overcome inclinations to do wrong.

A
A morally virtuous person is incapable of doing the wrong thing.

Must be false. All morally virtuous people have overcome the inclination to do the wrong thing, which means that these people are capable of doing the wrong thing––they just overcame the urge to do so.

B
Most people who achieve moral excellence are morally virtuous.

Could be false. We know that all people who become morally virtuous achieve moral excellence, but we don’t know what quantity of people who achieve moral excellence are morally virtuous.

C
Someone who has no inclination to do anything that is wrong has achieved moral excellence.

Could be false. The stimulus discusses those who have repeatedly overcome inclinations to do the wrong thing, not those who have no inclination to do the wrong thing. These are different ideas.

D
Someone who is not morally virtuous is incapable of achieving moral excellence.

Could be false. We know that all people who become morally virtuous achieve moral excellence. (D) confuses the sufficient and necessary conditions in this relationship.

E
Every morally virtuous person has been inclined to do something that is wrong.

Must be true. We know that all morally virtuous people have repeatedly overcome the inclinations to do something wrong, which means that they have faced this inclination before.

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LSAT PrepTest 157 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

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