June 2010 LSAT Section 5 Question 18

Based on the passage, it can be concluded that the author and Broyles-González hold essentially the same attitude toward

katlynhar on August 17, 2019

#4 ex. extroverts and shy are not opposite

Based on how this question was answered, we are to assume extroverts and shy people are not negations of each other? If so, should we assume most premises will include explicit words such as "not" to indicate the negation?

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Ravi on August 17, 2019

@katlynhar,

Yes, assume that shy people and extroverts aren't each others'
negations. There aren't any hard and fast rules, but in general,
premises will include a word like "not" to indicate the negation.

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