June 2010 LSAT Section 5 Question 14
The author uses the word "immediacy" (line 39) most likely in order to express
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Ben on December 5, 2019
Hi CMarr, thanks for the question.I believe that the issue with including the first sentence as a diagram such as: C and G - > HIE, is that it is not a purely conditional statement.
The thought behind the first sentence is that climate and geology are tools that we can use to determine where human industry is possible to establish. It is not saying that climate and industry always determine where human industry can be established. That is why it was not included in the conditional reasoning diagrams.
Similarly, if we think about scientific research solving everyday problems. We can say scientific research solves everyday problems. This doesn't mean that all scientific research solves everyday problems, it just means that some scientific research can solve everyday problems. Context is important. If we treated this as purely conditional, then we run into the issue of:
NOT solve everyday problems - > NOT scientific research
But just because we didn't solve the problem, doesn't mean that there wasn't research conducted.
"Bring about" isn't a typical indicator that we see. But in this context it is saying that migrations always results in the intermingling of ideas. That is how we were able to make the conditional diagram.
Much of what to diagram and what not to diagram comes through practice and just exposing yourself to a lot of similar problems. So keep drilling similar problems and please feel free to ask any other questions you may have.