#24 - Must Be True, Except

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=14639)

Cannot Be True. The correct answer choice is (B)

This question tests readers’ ability to identify the distinguishing characteristics of each institutional
policy. Some institutions may fit several classifications, but one institution will fit none of them. In each
answer choice, try to identify a policy that fits the institution described and then quickly move on to the
next answer choice.

Answer choice (A): A faculty-oriented institution would allow faculty to own the right to some
inventions created outside the institution if those inventions were not related to public health. A
resource-provider institution would allow faculty the same right if there was no significant use of
university resources, as would a maximalist institution, provided the invention also occurred outside the
course of university employment.

Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. None of the four policies described in the
passage allow faculty to own all their inventions, regardless of any circumstances. Even faculty-oriented
institutions, which exercise the narrowest ownership claim, will claim ownership of faculty inventions
under certain circumstances. This institution would not be covered by Chew’s fourfold classification
system.

Answer choice (C): The institution described here claims ownership of all inventions produced with
institutional resources. Both supramaximalist and maximalist institutions exercise such broad claims and
fit within the fourfold classification system.

Answer choice (D): This institution could be a faculty-oriented institution since the passage states that
faculty-oriented institutions maintain a claim to all faculty inventions related to public health.

Answer choice (E): Some inventions produced with institutional resources at resource-provider
institutions and at faculty-oriented institutions may remain the property of the faculty member. Such an
institution could fall into either category of Chew’s classification system.

[est15]

Hi, why isn't A correct? I thought that answer was almost exactly word-for-word the first sentence of the second paragraph.

[Ron Gore]

Hi Est,

Thanks for your question!

You are correct that answer choice (A) is almost exactly a word-for-word restatement of a portion of that line in the passage. However, it is the differences between the answer choice and the passage that makes this answer choice incorrect.

Remember that the objectivists only consider objective sources of information. This means the data that they collect will not directly conflict with the data obtain by subjectivists. They are entirely distinct types of data. It is the appeals to science, not the scientific data that conflicts with data gathered by introspection, in that the appeals to science hold that data gathered by introspection is unworthy of consideration.

Answer choice (B) properly captures this dynamic. Subjectivists say that objectivism is faulty because objectivism excludes the very sources of information on which subjectivists rely.

Please let me know if I can help you further.

Ron