September 2016 LSAT
Section 4
Question 21
Mehran on November 7, 2018
Hi @smilde11. In the most simple terms, the analogy presented in the stimulus compares apples and oranges: engineering is deemed to be "similar" to physiology. On what basis? Both are said to be capable of "analyzing the nature" of a single thing (engineering analyzes the nature of the machine "in terms of the successful working of the whole"; physiology analyzes the nature of an organism "in terms of organs' roles in the body's healthy functioning"). The assumption required for this analogy to hold, at the most basic level, is just that machines and organisms may have something in common. Answer choice (C) says this, in a very convoluted and (intentionally) confusing way. Hope that helps.