February 1993 LSAT Section 4 Question 11

Scientific research at a certain university was supported in part by an annual grant from a major foundation. When th...

CEC on June 13 at 09:06PM

Why would B be the wrong answer?

"It overlooks the possibility that the physics department's weapons research is not the only one of the university's research activities with other than purely humanitarian purposes." Couldn't the physics department have another "non-humanitarian sounding" research that is not intended for humanitarian purposes?

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Emil-Kunkin on June 20 at 12:39PM

B isn't really a problem for the argument. So what if the university has other research that isn't purely humanitarian? The vast majority of research is not purely humanitarian- but simply not being purely humanitarian (think along the lines of historical research, or computer science) is not the same thing as being directly antithetical to a humanitarian mission, like building weapons. Sure what you suggest is possible, but that isn't what B says.