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davidavidamayaJanuary 7, 2022
Premises are true…
@Mehran If The question stem states to treat the premises as true, does that mean ignore the conclusion and assume it’s false when diving into the answer choices?
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You never want to ignore the conclusion. On the LSAT, we seldom will attack the premises themselves. Rather, you should be critical as to how well the evidence proves the conclusion.
This particular question is a cannot be true question. These questions often have fact sets rather than arguments. When they do feature an argument, you can place less of an emphasis on the conclusion than you can in most question types. While the conclusion wasn’t very important on this question, however, you should stay in the habit of being critical of the conclusion, because the link from the evidence to the conclusion will be the key to many similar questions.
