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SamA January 16, 2020
Hello @Hector-Pagan,Good question. This is exactly why we pay close attention to conclusion indicators such as "thus" and "therefore." You might be correct that if we rearranged the sentences, the first sentence could be considered a conclusion. That might make more sense to you as an argument. There are a lot of different arguments on the LSAT, and not all of them are logical. Nevertheless, we must follow the stimulus as it is written. It can be hard to say which statements support which, unless we pay attention to how they are presented. This is why you should not have ignored "thus" in this case. Even if you find it to be a flawed argument, the indicator words and structure tell us what point the author is trying to make.