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Lesson 6: Logical Reasoning – Articles- Getting started with Logical Reasoning
- Introduction to arguments
- Catalog of question types
- Types of conclusions
- Types of evidence
- Types of flaws
- Identify the conclusion | Quick guide
- Identify the conclusion | Learn more
- Identify the conclusion | Examples
- Identify an entailment | Quick guide
- Identify an entailment | Learn more
- Strongly supported inferences | Quick guide
- Strongly supported inferences | Learn more
- Disputes | Quick guide
- Disputes | Learn more
- Identify the technique | Quick guide
- Identify the technique | Learn more
- Identify the role | Quick guide
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- Identify the principle | Quick guide
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- Match structure | Quick guide
- Match structure | Learn more
- Match principles | Quick guide
- Match principles | Learn more
- Identify a flaw | Quick guide
- Identify a flaw | Learn more
- Match a flaw | Quick guide
- Match a flaw | Learn more
- Necessary assumptions | Quick guide
- Necessary assumptions | Learn more
- Sufficient assumptions | Quick guide
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- Strengthen and weaken | Quick guide
- Strengthen and weaken | Learn more
- Helpful to know | Quick guide
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- Explain or resolve | Quick guide
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Identify the conclusion | Quick guide
A quick guide to "Identify the conclusion" questions
Some LSAT questions ask you to Identify the Conclusion of a line of reasoning. Here’s a helpful definition that can clear things up:
Conclusion: the one statement that is supported by the other statements, and that itself doesn’t support any other statements.
Common wrong choice types:
- Sub-Conclusion: Also known as a subsidiary or intermediate conclusion, a sub-conclusion is a claim that looks like a conclusion (because it is supported by one or more other statements), but that isn’t the main conclusion—it’s a conclusion that also supports a different claim!
Checklist
✓ Find the point: Determine which statement seems like the main prediction, value judgment, interpretation, or theory. What is the one thing the arguer is trying to convince us of?
✓ Look for support indicator words: Some words indicate that the statements they introduce are part of a support statement, and are not the conclusion. Support indicators like because, since and for can introduce statements that explain why the arguer believes a claim.
✓ Double-check the claim: If the statement you chose seems to retroactively, or continue on to, support a different claim, then you haven’t chosen the main conclusion. In fact, it’s now more likely that the different claim being supported is the main conclusion.
✓ Look for conclusion indicator words: Some words are good indicators that the statements they introduce are part of a conclusion. The most common examples are thus and therefore, but however, yet, although and but can indicate conclusions, too.
✓ Clarify pronouns: If the main conclusion is ambiguous—for example, “but this is a mistake”—it’s a good idea to rephrase the main conclusion using other parts of the passage. What is “this”, and what does it mean that it’s a “mistake”?
✓ Match it! Find the choice that accurately paraphrases the main conclusion that you identified.
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