LSAT 86 – Section 4 – Question 18
LSAT 86 - Section 4 - Question 18
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT86 S4 Q18 |
+LR
| Most strongly supported +MSS | A
36%
161
B
5%
157
C
48%
163
D
0%
156
E
10%
158
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142 163 180 |
+Hardest | 147.181 +SubsectionMedium |
One of the hardest yet most helpful practices during Blind Review is to create your own analogous arguments. Consider the following analogy which should demonstrate the issue of smuggling facts of the world which you believe into other people's minds.
Oranges contain vitamin C which is an essential vitamin. (This is a fact. You just read it so even if you didn't already believe it before, you certainly believe it now.)
Many people criticize oranges because they believe that the fruit has no health benefits. These same people believe that vitamin C has health benefits.
Here's the entire content of those people's beliefs:
b1 - Oranges have no health benefits.
b2 - Vitamin C has health benefits.
Can we say that these people hold contradictory beliefs about oranges? No, we cannot. Look again at b1 and b2. There is no contradiction. You're tempted to say yes because you know that oranges contain vitamin C and you think to yourself surely they must believe this too. This is the trap that (A) lays out.
But, what we can say for sure is that these people's b1 is just wrong. They're just wrong about oranges' health benefits. Because b1 contradicts a fact of the world. This is (C), the correct answer.
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LSAT PrepTest 86 Explanations
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
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logic Games
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
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- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
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