Q16

[LSAT-Chang]

I was down to (A), (D), (E) for this one, and I guessed the correct answer (A). Could someone explain to me why (D) and (E) are incorrect? Here are my thoughts (but even with these thoughts that I had, I wasn't able to eliminate it for sure):

(D) might be wrong because there is no "historical importance"?? We don't know that these evidence showing women doctors are of historical importance..? Not sure.

(E) was just really tempting because I felt like I was missing out on the parts mentioned in (E): "sources of evidence", "in support of the author's main conclusion" -- I was lost in this one, but thought the author's main conclusion is that these evidence suggest that there were women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome, so thought that the third paragraph DOES support that, but didn't get what the "sources of evidence that are cited in the first two paragraphs" was referring to.

[timmydoeslsat]

I was down to (A), (D), (E) for this one, and I guessed the correct answer (A). Could someone explain to me why (D) and (E) are incorrect? Here are my thoughts (but even with these thoughts that I had, I wasn't able to eliminate it for sure):

(D) might be wrong because there is no "historical importance"?? We don't know that these evidence showing women doctors are of historical importance..? Not sure.

This answer choice would be appropriate had we seen the author advocating why it is important to know about women doctors from such an early time period. The author simply states that there were early female doctors.

(E) was just really tempting because I felt like I was missing out on the parts mentioned in (E): "sources of evidence", "in support of the author's main conclusion" -- I was lost in this one, but thought the author's main conclusion is that these evidence suggest that there were women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome, so thought that the third paragraph DOES support that, but didn't get what the "sources of evidence that are cited in the first two paragraphs" was referring to.

And that is why answer choice A is correct because the third paragraph gives us more reason to believe that there were female doctors in ancient Rome and Greece.

The sources of evidence in the first two paragraphs would include the reference from Plato and things like that. This answer choice is implying that the author would be trying to strengthen the important of such sources and why we would consider them as sufficient evidence I would imagine.

This answer choice would be correct had the passage, in the third paragraph, discussed how Plato's work is always indicative of what is currently happening in society, etc.