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LSAT Combo
formal logic
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Post-Graduate
07/19/2018
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All & Some

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All & Most

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All & Most

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Most & Most

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All & All

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All & All

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Because
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For
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As
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After all
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Premise
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Moreover
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Premise
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In Addition
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Premise
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Given that
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Premise
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Therefore
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Thus
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Hence
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So
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As a result
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Consequently
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It follows that
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It is clear that
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For her vacation in January, Sheila could go to Canada, Florida, or Hawaii. However, it is cold in Canada and hurricane season I’m Florida, so Sheila will go to Hawaii
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Rejecting alternatives
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All students at Morris High School study biology during their sophomore year, so Katie, who is a student at Morris, must have studied biology during her sophomore year.
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Apply a general principle
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The students disagreed about whether the correct answer toro the calculus problem was X or Y. However, professor James, a noted mathematician, says it is X, so it must be X
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Appealing to Authority
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It is widely believed that mammals cannot fly. Since bars are mammals and bars fly, this belief is clearly mistaken.
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Using a Counterexample
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Just as Ford’s reputation for producing a solid product helped it to succeed, our new clothing line must build a similar reputation to guarantee a long-standing success.
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Making an Analogy
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My friend claimed that i could not talk to the new girl at the party because he saw her first. By his reasoning, no one could ever talk to someone or the opposite sex except the doctor that performed the delivery.
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Using a line of reasoning to draw an absurd conclusion (generally 2nd perspective)
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The teacher hypothesized that the students were restless because it was raining during recess so they did not get to run around. Alternatively, the principle believes that it is due to the boring nature of their math class.
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Proposing an alternate cause for an observed effect
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1) Rejecting Alternatives
2) Applying a general principle
3) Appealing to an authority
4) Using a counterexample
5) Making an analogy
6) Using a line of reasoning-absurd conclusion
7) Proposing an alternate cause for an observer effect
8) Undermine a premise or conclusion (generally 2nd perspective$
9) Offering New Evidence/challenging an assumption
10) Explaining a phenomenon
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Types of argumentation
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