LSAT - Logical Reasoning Latest Update 2024- 2025 Actual Exam Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Assumption - CORRECT ANSWER: Questions ask you to identify a statement that the
argument assumes or supposes. An assumption is simply an unstated premise-what must be true in order for the argument to be true. In conditional reasoning terms, an assumption can be defined as what is necessary for the argument to be true.
Assumption - CORRECT ANSWER: These questions ask you to identify an assumption
of the author's argument. Question stem example: "which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument above?"
Cannot be true - CORRECT ANSWER: Cannot be true questions ask you to identify the answer choice that cannot be true or is most weakened based on the information in the stimulus. Question stem example: "if the statements above are true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?"
Cause and Effect Reasoning
Causal Indicators - CORRECT ANSWER: Caused by
Because of Responsible for Reason for Leads to Induced by Promoted by Determined by Produced by Product of Played a role in Was a factor in Is an effect of
Common Flaws in Reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Uncertain Use of a Term or
Concept
- Source Argument
- Circular Reasoning
- Mistaken Cause and Effect
- Error of Conditional Reasoning
- General Lack of Support for the Conclusion
- Internal Contradiction
- Exceptional Case/Overgeneralization
- Errors in the Use of Evidence
- Errors of Composition and Division 1 / 2
- Survey Errors
- Appeal Fallacies
Conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER: A statement or judgment that follows from one or
more reasons.
Conclusion Indicators - CORRECT ANSWER: Thus
Therefore Hence Consequently As a result So Accordingly Clearly Must be that Shows that Conclude that Follows that For this reason
Conditional Reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER: A conditional statement is, in its most
easily recognized form, an "if...then..." statement. The following is, for example, a conditional statement. Conditional statements are also described in terms of sufficient and necessary conditions.
Contra-positive - CORRECT ANSWER: a conditional statement derived from another by negating and interchanging antecedent and consequent
Disprove - CORRECT ANSWER: a. Cannot be true
Evaluate the argument - CORRECT ANSWER: With evaluate the argument questions;
you must decide which answer choice will allow you to determine the logical validity of the argument. Question stem example: "the answer to which one of the following questions would contribute most to an evaluation of the argument?"
Example of Sufficient Necessary - CORRECT ANSWER: Banging my shin on the table
is all that is needed for me to scream in pain (i.e. it is sufficient), so banging my shin is considered the sufficient condition. I cannot bang my shin on the table without screaming in pain (screaming necessarily follows the banging of my shin), so screaming in pain is the necessary condition. You should be fine if you can simply remember that the antecedent (the phrase following the "if") is the sufficient condition for the consequent (the phrase following the "then") and the consequent is the necessary condition for the antecedent.
Explain Sufficient Necessary - CORRECT ANSWER: If a sufficient condition occurs, you automatically know that the necessary condition also occurs. If a necessary
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