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DalaalFebruary 23, 2020
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Relating to answer choice E, why couldn't we consider that the phrase "circulations fall" as to hold the same meaning as " not publish good papers" and thus give it the same acronym? Wouldn't publishing bad papers lead to circulation fall?
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Conflating the meaning of "not publish good papers" with that of "circulations falls" is an unsupported assumption and a big no on the LSAT. We need to be careful to use only the information we are given and leave all outside assumptions out of our logic. Therefore, we cannot assume that publishing bad papers leads to circulation falling. Perhaps people like bad papers or perhaps they're buying the newspaper to use for other purposes, we don't know.
Even if not publishing good papers were to lead to circulation falling, we would write this as: Not PGP -> CF. We would not use the same acronym/variable for both, because one phenomenon leading to another does not mean that the two are the same. We should only use the same acronym/variable, when the basis of two things are exactly the same (i.e. "Not PGP" for not publish good papers and "PGP" for publish good papers).
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