October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 1

By referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as "purely programmatic" (line 49) in nature, the author mo...

Griffin on December 7, 2021

Example #1 did not age well lol

Donato Domínguez does not have "arms", he only has a arm, but is certainly a great basketball player that will receive multiple D1 scholarships.

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Emil-Kunkin on January 26, 2022

Hi @Griffen,

This might be a good catch! Dominguez (and Shaquem Griffin- who was a phenomenal one handed football player at a D1 school, UCF and played 4 seasons in the NFL) are great counterexamples to a general statement. Sometimes we will see a general statement that appears to go along with common sense- but one reasonable counterexample like Dominguez and Griffin could be enough to disprove it.

On the other hand, if we saw an argument whose premise was "All great basketball players have arms" we would indeed have to accept that as true regardless of our outside knowledge.