June 2010 LSAT Section 4 Question 25

Graham: The defeat of the world's chess champion by a computer shows that any type of human intellectual activity go...

Anthony-Wurst on July 2, 2021

IMO, Graham agrees with C

Hello! I think that Graham indicates by the clear language of his statement that he attributes the defeat of the chess champion to the "devisers" of the computer that did so. Since Graham can be said to agree that the victory is attributed to the "devisers" of the computer that defeated the chess champion, it is not clear that he disagrees with the statement in answer choice C in my opinion. Can someone PLEASE prove me wrong so that I can figure out what I am missing and avoid this mistake in the future? Thanks for your help!

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Emil-Kunkin on March 12 at 07:58PM

This assumes that the machine would be built by humans and not other machines. More importantly there's nothing in the statement that makes me thing that G actually attributes the defeat to the programmers, and rather there is support for the idea that he attributes the success to the computer. He uses the computers win to support the claim that even better computers will be able to beat humans at even more complex task. This implies that the computers will be the entities beating humans, not the computers makers.