Q7 - Two things are true of

[christinamattos]

Can someone please explain this question? I found it very difficult.

[giladedelman]

Thanks for your question! Let me see if I can help.

We're told that two things apply to ALL immoral actions:

1) If performed in public, they offend public sensibilities.
2) They are accompanied by feelings of guilt.

Now we need to evaluate the answers, keeping in mind that we're looking for the one that must be FALSE. That means the four incorrect answers either must be true, or could be true.

(A) is correct. The "not performed in public" part is actually a smokescreen. Based on the given statements, ALL immoral actions, public or private, are accompanied by feelings of guilt. So this statement MUST be false.

(B) is out of scope. The statements don't address why or whether immoral actions are wrong.

(C) may be true, or it may not; we don't know anything about actions that offend public sensibilities, apart from ones that are immoral.

(D) may or may not be true. We know that all immoral actions are accompanied by feelings of guilt. Maybe there are actions accompanied by feelings of guilt that aren't immoral, but maybe there aren't; we don't know.

(E), again, could be true. Maybe all actions performed in public that are accompanied by feelings of guilt are immoral.

Does that make sense, or are you still struggling to figure out what we can and cannot infer based on the given statements?

[gotomedschool]

I just discovered this forum and I'm soooo mad that I've been searching TLS for answers when it is so perfectly categorized here!

This was the only question I got wrong on LR1--Silly mistake, I know but after reviewing I was able to figure out the answer. I was double checking my reasoning with yours here and you are SPOT ON!

"ALL immoral actions, public or private, are accompanied by feelings of guilt. So this statement MUST be false."

Boooyah!

[u2manish]

Dear All,

I dont understand this question. Can someone please help us by diagramming the answer choices. How is choice D only a mistaken reversal? Thank you.

Best,

M

[robowarren]

Hi,

I am working on diagramming and thought I would chime in here. Can someone from manhattan lsat make sure I am right?

Here is my diagram for this question:
P --> PS --> I --> G

So A is right because we cannot negate G when making it into "Some".

BUT re-looking at D, I now do not see how D can work. Can someone explain?

[timmydoeslsat]

Hi,

I am working on diagramming and thought I would chime in here. Can someone from manhattan lsat make sure I am right?

Here is my diagram for this question:
P --> PS --> I --> G

This is not correct.

I will help you diagram this stimulus.


Immoral Action performed in public ---> Offend pub sens.

Immoral Action ---> Acc. feelings of guilt


(So we also know that the first line also has the feelings of guilt as well because immoral action triggers it.)

A) Is telling us that some immoral actions are not accompanied by feelings of guilt. This is not possible! All immoral actions are accompanied by feelings of guilt.

B) We do not know why immoral actions are wrong. We are not told, so we cannot prove this false, or that this must be false based on what we are given.

C) This is simply playing off of a necessary condition, and we cannot infer anything about a necessary condition.

Quick mini-lesson:

A ---> B

We do not know what happens if B. We do not know what happens if ~A.

We know what happens if A.
We also know what happens if ~B, via the contrapositive. But that is all.

This answer choice is trying to play off of 'what if B part." Nothing has to be false on that.

D) Same thing as above! It is playing off of the necessary conditions. We cannot prove this false.

E) Classic reversal.