December 2015 LSAT Section 2 Question 20

Critic: It is common to argue that there is a distinction between "literary" and "genre" fiction. The first should be...

AmMaSu on June 3, 2021

How do you determine that “this is a specious distinction” is the conclusion rather than what follows in the sentence or the sentence after?

Many thanks in advance!

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Emil-Kunkin on March 27, 2023

I think the easiest way is to recognize this as part of a pattern that recurs often in LR: some people claim X, but X is wrong, for reasons. In this pattern, "X is wrong" id the conclusion.

More specific to the argument, we know it's the conclusion because the second half of the passage directly supports it.