LSAT 64 – Section 3 – Question 14
LSAT 64 - Section 3 - Question 14
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT64 S3 Q14 |
+LR
| Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw | A
43%
167
B
6%
159
C
13%
160
D
27%
163
E
11%
163
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155 168 180 |
+Hardest | 146.872 +SubsectionMedium |
Arnot's conclusion: making fundamental changes to our government will eliminate social ills.
Please note that we are not presented with Arnot's premises. Only his conclusion. In other words, we don't have Arnot's argument.
Author's conclusion: making fundamental changes to our government will NOT eliminate social ills.
Author's premise: Arnot's argument [which we didn't get to see] for "this claim" [references "Arnot's conclusion"] makes a bad assumption. That's fine. Arnot may well have made an unreasonable assumption. That doesn't mean that the author has proved anything about "making fundamental changes to our government will or will NOT eliminate social ills." The author only showed us that a person made a bad argument.
Let's say I make a really shitty argument for the claim that "nuclear world war would be really bad for everyone." You call me out on my argument being shitty. Specifically, you claim that I made a bad assumption in my argument. Okay. Does that mean that therefore "the conclusion is obviously false"? In other words, it doesn't mean that you've proven "nuclear world war would NOT be really bad for everyone". You just showed that I made a bad argument.
The question of whether "nuclear world war would be really bad for everyone" is still up in the air.
You can see why you can't just say "You made a bad argument for X. Therefore, not X is obviously true."
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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
- Question 14
- Question 15
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- Question 19
- Question 20
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- Question 22
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- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logic Games
Section 3 - 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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