December 1996 LSAT Section 2 Question 20

Ann will either take a leave of absence from Technocomp and return in a year or else she will quit her job there; but...

AndrewArabie on January 5, 2023

Anticipation

I didn't understand the answer anticipation description. Is there anyone who could describe the concepts differently. Maybe I can understand it better from someone else's thoughts.

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Emil-Kunkin on January 8, 2023

Hi, this one is a real doozy.

I would probably start at the conclusion and work back: we are trying to prove that the only way Anne will quit is if the company find out about the fellowship.

We knew that Anne had two options, quit or leave, and we have no idea about which of the two she would prefer. We only know that the company will not let her take the leave if they find out.

How, then, can we prove that the only way she would quit is if she is forced to not take the leave? The easiest way I can think of proving that would be by saying that she would prefer to take leave than to quit.

This is not a perfect match for D, but the idea is similar, and that process got me thinking in the right direction even if my anticipation was less than perfect.

AndrewArabie on January 14, 2023

Thank you Emil. This was my thought process/anticipation as well but it took me forever to get to, and I was not confident in it at all because I could not find a way to chain this conditional logic together. I typically don't rely on logic chains for Str w/ Suff but when they are this convoluted I like to reassure myself and it just impossible for me on this one.