LSAT 102 – Section 4 – Question 16

LSAT 102 - Section 4 - Question 16

June 1998

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
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PT102 S4 Q16
+LR
Must be false +MBF
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
2%
161
B
41%
163
C
5%
160
D
49%
169
E
3%
164
157
166
175
 +Hardest 146.127 +SubsectionMedium

J.Y.’s explanation

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Essayist: Wisdom and intelligence are desirable qualities. However, being intelligent does not imply that one is wise, nor does being wise imply that one is intelligent. In my own experience, the people I meet have one or the other of these qualities but not both.

Summary

Wisdom and intelligence are desirable.

Someone can be intelligent, but not wise.

Someone can be wise, but not intelligent.

In the speaker’s experience, people she meets have either intelligence or wisdom, but not both.

Notable Valid Inferences

Some people do not have both intelligence and wisdom.

A
Most people are neither intelligent nor wise.

Could be true. It’s possible most, or even all people in the world do not have both wisdom and intelligence. None of the facts indicates that there must be someone who has both wisdom and intelligence.

B
Most people are both intelligent and wise.

Could be true. Although (B) would be false if it were limited to the people the stimulus’s author has met, (B) isn’t limited to those people. Most people in the world could be both — the author just hasn’t met them.

C
No one is both wise and intelligent.

Could be true. The stimulus doesn’t say anything indicating that there must be at least one person who is both wise and intelligent. It’s possible nobody has both wisdom and intelligence.

D
No one is either wise or intelligent.

Must be false. The author said she knows people who have one of the qualities of wisdom or intelligence, but not both. That means there’s at least one person out there who has wisdom or intelligence..

E
Many people are intelligent and yet lack wisdom.

Could be true. The author said she knows people who have wisdom or intelligence, but not both. It’s possible many of those people are intelligent, but don’t have wisdom.

This question presumes knowledge of these lessons on Lawgic:
https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/contrapositives-demorgans-law

https://classic.7sage.com/lesson/advanced-negate-some-statements

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