October 2004 LSAT Section 3 Question 16

Which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of the sites each of which CANNOT be the site discovered b...

gracehazelhoff on October 21 at 03:40AM

Last Rule

For the last rule, why does "either 1st or 4th" mean that the third spot is more recent than both the first and the fourth? I thought either/or meant one or the other or both?

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Emil-Kunkin on October 21 at 02:59PM

On its own yes, but if we say that X dates dates earlier than does either Y or Z, this has the effect of grouping y and z.

In an analogous situation, we could say "Schwarber had more homers than Harper or Bohm did." This clearly should indicate that schwarber was first.