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- Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:44 pm
#5238
This question's answer was D, but it seems to me to be a question that could be interpreted in multiple ways.
D explains how to resolve the paradox of how John disagrees with his friends about whether this picture resembles him or not. John says this is the only one that does, while his feel it was the only one that doesn't. D explains the reason to be that this picture was unique in that it was a picture of John in a mirror. But how does that resolve the paradox? A mirror doesn't make someone look different - it merely reverses everything about them. Right becomes left, etc. It doesn't make it that someone becomes resembled any different. So how would that resolve the paradox?
I chose A, because A seemed like an answer that actually did resolve the paradox. A said that this picture showed John in his normal style of dress, as opposed to the rest that showed him in formal clothing. I thought that this answer resolved it in that it was explaining that John felt that resemblance meant showing who he truly was - it resembled who he is as opposed to formal clothes that didn't really resemble his true self. While his friends weren't looking at it in that capacity.
Honestly, I think that A only works if you look way too deeply into the question, but the LSAT doesn't work that way, so it also should probably be wrong for that reason - that it's too deep of an answer, but I still don't see how D works. Mirrors don't make people think they look differently than everyone thinks they do. Can someone please explain to me how this answer works as an answer that can be chosen without knowledge into how the LSAT looks at mirrors? Or was I supposed to know that the LSAT assumes that mirrors trick people into thinking they look one way that others feel they don't look?
Thank you for the help in advance.
-Moshe
D explains how to resolve the paradox of how John disagrees with his friends about whether this picture resembles him or not. John says this is the only one that does, while his feel it was the only one that doesn't. D explains the reason to be that this picture was unique in that it was a picture of John in a mirror. But how does that resolve the paradox? A mirror doesn't make someone look different - it merely reverses everything about them. Right becomes left, etc. It doesn't make it that someone becomes resembled any different. So how would that resolve the paradox?
I chose A, because A seemed like an answer that actually did resolve the paradox. A said that this picture showed John in his normal style of dress, as opposed to the rest that showed him in formal clothing. I thought that this answer resolved it in that it was explaining that John felt that resemblance meant showing who he truly was - it resembled who he is as opposed to formal clothes that didn't really resemble his true self. While his friends weren't looking at it in that capacity.
Honestly, I think that A only works if you look way too deeply into the question, but the LSAT doesn't work that way, so it also should probably be wrong for that reason - that it's too deep of an answer, but I still don't see how D works. Mirrors don't make people think they look differently than everyone thinks they do. Can someone please explain to me how this answer works as an answer that can be chosen without knowledge into how the LSAT looks at mirrors? Or was I supposed to know that the LSAT assumes that mirrors trick people into thinking they look one way that others feel they don't look?
Thank you for the help in advance.
-Moshe
