October 1992 LSAT Section 3 Question 2

The use of money causes a civilization to decline. That this is true is shown by the way the troubles of Western civi...

AriannaBarnaby on May 19 at 11:48AM

General Question

Hello! Under what circumstance are we allowed to select an answer choice that brings in new information (information not found in the stimulus)?

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Emil-Kunkin on May 20 at 08:03PM

Hi, we are allowed to do this when the question asks "which of the following, IF TRUE, would XYZ" which includes strengthen, weaken, sufficient assumption, necessary assumption, paradox, and a few other questions. Generally, it's the "if true" that tells us the answer choices are new info that would do something (eg weaken or strengthen) to an argument.