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Hi sdb,
You definitely shouldn't read an "all" into that portion of the language of answer choice E here. The loose principle for this answer, that you can apply to similar phrases in similar contexts, is that where a quantity is ambiguous, "some" is to be preferred. You could only read a strong logical term like "all" into the phrase if it were very clear from the context of the entire statement (and the passage or question) that the "all" was intended. Without that contextual clarity, keep the quantity reference vaguer, like "some."
I hope this helps!
You definitely shouldn't read an "all" into that portion of the language of answer choice E here. The loose principle for this answer, that you can apply to similar phrases in similar contexts, is that where a quantity is ambiguous, "some" is to be preferred. You could only read a strong logical term like "all" into the phrase if it were very clear from the context of the entire statement (and the passage or question) that the "all" was intended. Without that contextual clarity, keep the quantity reference vaguer, like "some."
I hope this helps!
Jeremy Press
LSAT Instructor and law school admissions consultant
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LSAT Instructor and law school admissions consultant
Follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/JeremyLSAT