#14 - Max: As evidence mounts showing the terrible changes

[Administrator]

Please post your questions below!

[Lsat180Please]

Hi. Can you please explain why A is the answer and not C. I thought that to claim that something is "misguided" is not the same as saying something is false or cannot be true. I thought that "unsupported" was a more accurate way to classify the statement. Thanks!!

[Adam Tyson]

The claim at issue in the stimulus, Lsat180Please, is Cora's claim that using technology is natural, which was one of her premises. Cora isn't saying that Max is wrong about technology bringing about terrible changes. She's saying that he is wrong to think that technology is unnatural. Looked at another way, Max is saying "the solution is to be natural" and Cora is saying "but we are already being natural, so that's not the problem."

Don't focus on Cora's claim that Max's criticism is misguided - Cora's conclusion - because that is not the claim they asked us about. Focus on what they asked about, and prephrase what role it played in the argument overall.