July 2020 LSAT Section 1 Question 9

Essayist: Practical intelligence is the ability to discover means to ends. This ability is a skill-something that do...

JosephRocco on August 15, 2022

Question # 9 - Practical Intelligence

Could someone please explain why Answer Choice D in this scenario doesn't fill in the gap? Also this seemed to be an assumption question when after all it was really a paradox question. Can someone also explain why it's not an assumption but rather a paradox question? It wasn't apparent from the question stem.

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Emil-Kunkin on September 12, 2022

Hi, this is an assumption question (a sufficient assumption question)- we are being asked to make the author's conclusion that a being that got whatever it wants could never become intelligent in a practical sense.

D tells us that a hypothetical being with PI would be able to get what it wants only by using PI, which is not the scenario described in the passage. Furthermore, we do not know if our hypothetical being in the passage has PI or not.