December 2012 LSAT
Section 3
Question 10
Emil-Kunkin on January 3 at 04:01PM
I think you're right: it's completely possible that the poison was successful for a time, and the pike were able to return later. First, I would argue then that this strategy was not fully successful. The poison may have worked, but since there are still pike, the strategy was not fully successful. This is a bit petty, and I don't like this argument at all. I think a stronger explanation is that for most strongly supported questions, it's ok if there's 1 percent of doubt. For a true must be true the right answer has to be definitely proven. For most strongly supported, 99 percent is ok. It's not an issue if there's an unlikely but not impossible scenario where the answer choice is not true, because it is still very strongly supported by the passage.