Agree-Disagree | LSAT Logical Reasoning

[@mabintou_ashley]

Amazing video, thank you!!!

[@svetlanahovhannisyan4195]

can you post some videos on games:) i love your explanations

[@LSATLab]

Thank you! We'll be adding videos for LG very soon. We've almost finished replacing our LR by question type videos and LG is next.

[@bassstudent4life]

I'm a little confused. In one video, you guys had paradox under the 'assumption and inference' family. Which one is it?

[@LSATLab]

You asked that on another video a day or two ago and we responded. Have you seen that response?

[@chingizakhundzade9436]

I cant do lr questions can you show how I can deal with questions I’m good at flaws however I’m bad at assuptions and strengthen weaken questions can you give instructions how I can improve my accuracy in assuption and strengthen and weaken questions

[@LSATLab]

Hi, not sure if you've seen, we have videos for each of those topics. Strengthen - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYOsg4l9nJmGf8U Weaken - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoauhZSKi7CZhbs Sufficient Assumption - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXrcpKakeql0mdE Necessary Assumption - kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2iQlZRtjc6WbsU

[@chingizakhundzade9436]

I’ve seen these videos but i’m not sure I understood it

[@chingizakhundzade9436]

Especially assuption questions

[@LSATLab]

@@chingizakhundzade9436 Schedule a lesson, maybe I can help. calendly.com/lsatlab/30min

[@chingizakhundzade9436]

@lsatlab is it free?

[@abandonallhope.1040]

I was stuck between B and D for the first Agree/Disagree question...how do you differentiate between the two choices? I think your explanation was stating that D was incorrect because it has a prescriptive element, the "ought," but how does that make it incorrect? Aren't Antonio and Marla aren't making a recommendation about moderation?

[@LSATLab]

In order to pick (D), we would need to derive one answer from Marla and a different one from Antonio. According to Antonio, how often should we deviate from the middle course? It sounds like he thinks that, "we should deviate from the middle course at least sometimes" (since he points out the bad parts of NEVER deviating from the middle course". Would Marla disagree with that? Would she say "we should NEVER deviate from the middle course"? No, we can't derive that from her statements. According to Marla, how often should we deviate from the middle course? I have no idea. It doesn't seem like she answers that question. When it comes to (B), what does Marla think is required of moderation? She thinks that "sometimes not being moderate" is required, because she says "one *must* be moderate in one's moderation. Would Antonio disagree with that? Would he say "deviating from moderation isn't required for moderation"? Yes, he would say that. His first sentence says that you can live a life of moderation by NEVER deviating from the middle course. You said, "aren't they both making a recommendation about moderation"? I'm not sure either of them says anything that sounds like a recommendation. Antonio just says, "You can do X, but then you risk missing out on Y and Z". Is that a recommendation to NOT do X? Not necessarily. I might say to my kid, "You can stay up to watch one more cartoon, but then you risk missing out on having a story at bedtime". I'm not recommending either course of action; just informing her of the trade-offs.

[@abandonallhope.1040]

@@LSATLab but what if it were about a person trying to live a life of moderation? Then wouldn’t the prescriptive nature of the answer choice work?

[@LSATLab]

@@abandonallhope.1040 does Antonio think that a person SHOULD or SHOULDN'T live a live of moderation? Does Marla think that a person should / shouldn't live a life of moderation? I think Antonio doesn't provide any explicit answer to that one way or the other. The fact that he points out one downside of a life of moderation provides some support, but weak support, for the speculation that he would say, "you SHOULDN'T live a life of moderation". But Marla provides zero opinion on that topic. She only talks about whether "never deviating from the middle course" qualifies as a life of moderation. She doesn't discuss anything in regards to whether a life of moderation is desirable / undesirable.

[@abandonallhope.1040]

@@LSATLab I meant if the choice stated if a person wanted to live a life of moderation…so for agree and disagree questions, everything in the answer choices has to be explicitly stated to be supported by the speakers?

[@LSATLab]

@@abandonallhope.1040 no, we don't need explicitly stated support for each answer we pick, but we need support. I'm not sure what you mean by "if a person wanted to live a life of moderation", maybe you can clarify. I took you previous question to be, "What if the answer said (A) whether one ought to live a life of moderation" If so, then you would need to show me how you're justifying that one speaker has said or supported the takeaway of, "Yes, you should live a life of moderation" and where the other speaker has said or supported the takeaway of, "No, you should not live a life of moderation". Do you think Marla has supported the idea that you SHOULD live a life of moderation or SHOULDN'T? (my feeling is she hasn't supported either. she doesn't speak to any sense of good/bad or better/worse)