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LSAT-Section-1-Logical-Reasoning – Section One : Logical Reasoning

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Question 268

Maria: Thomas Edison was one of the most productive inventors of his time, perhaps of all time. His contributions significantly shaped the development of modern lighting and communication systems. Yet he had only a few months of formal schooling. Therefore, you do not need a formal education to make crucial contributions to technological advancement.

Frank: That is definitely not true anymore. Since Edison's day there have been many new developments in technology; to make crucial contributions today you need much more extensive technical knowledge than was needed then.

Frank's reasoning in his response to Maria is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

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    fails to address the possibility that technical knowledge may be acquired without formal education
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    does not consider whether there have been improvements in formal education since Edison's day
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    relies on using the term "crucial" differently from the way Maria used it
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    presumes that no other inventor of Edison's time could have been as productive as Edison
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    fails to criticize or question any of Maria's statements about Edison
Question 269

In some countries, there is a free flow of information about infrastructure, agriculture, and industry, whereas in other countries, this information is controlled by a small elite. In the latter countries, the vast majority of the population is denied vital information about factors that determine their welfare. Thus, these countries are likely to experience more frequent economic crises than other countries do.

The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

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    It is more likely that people without political power will suffer from economic crises than it is that people in power will.
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    Economic crises become more frequent as the amount of information available to the population about factors determining its welfare decreases.
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    In nations in which the government controls access to information about infrastructure, agriculture, and industry, economic crises are common.
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    The higher the percentage of the population that participates in economic decisions, the better those decisions are.
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    A small elite that controls information about infrastructure, agriculture, and industry is likely to manipulate that information for its own benefit.
Question 270

Hana said she was not going to invite her brothers to her birthday party. However, among the gifts Hana received at her party was a recording in which she had expressed an interest. Since her brothers had planned to give her that recording, at least some of Hana's brothers must have been among the guests at Hana's birthday party after all.

A reasoning error in the argument is that the argument

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    disregards the possibility that a change of mind might be justified by a change in circumstances
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    treats the fact of someone's presence at a givenevenfas a guarantee that that person had a legitimate reason to be at that event
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    uses a term that is intrinsically evaluative as though that term was purely descriptive
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    fails to establish that something true of some people is true of only those people
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    overlooks the possibility that a person's interesting one kind of thing is compatible with that person's interest in a different kind of thing