PT50, S4, Q15 - Anyone who lives without constant awareness

[stephen.dewart]

I was TOTALLY lost on this one. Please clarify for me? Thanks!

[giladedelman]

Let's see if we can shed some light on this!

Here we're dealing with an inference question (what do the statements most strongly support?), which means we're being asked to draw a conclusion based on the statements given. You may also have noticed that the stimulus is composed of two conditional statements. When you're stuck on an LR problem that meets these two criteria -- inference (or assumption) question, and a bunch of conditional statements -- one useful tool is to try diagramming it out. Let's have a look (conditional triggers in bold):

Anyone who lives without constant awareness ... has a mind clouded by illusion.
Those people who are perpetually cognizant ... taint their emotional outlook.

These become

-CA ---> I
CA ---> TE

Now we chain together whatever we can, perhaps by using a contrapositive:

-TE ---> -CA ---> I

Can we find this in the answer choices?

(D) is correct! It says -TE ---> I, which is what we got from our conditional chain!

(A) is totally out of scope. Higher priority? Completely unaware?

(B) is incorrect. In fact, the argument suggests that both of these types of people exist.

(C) is out of scope. Where does the argument mention self-deception?

(E) is out of scope. Where does the argument weigh in on what's better or worse?

Thanks again for the question, and let me know if there's anything else bugging you about it!