Q25

[norginz]

Can you explain this question please? Also what is wrong with answer A? Thanks.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT2]

Per the discussion of the passage, we know that those who ascribe to the scientific method look at individual parts, but they do so with an understanding of how those parts relate to the whole. The author mentions this in the final paragraph as something the Organicists miss.

(B) represents this idea, and is therefore correct.

(A) is tempting expect for the word "full." "Full isolation" contradicts what we are told in the final paragraph.

[lhermary]

It was between B and C and i guessed wrong

why is C wrong?

[ohthatpatrick]

When you're down to two, look for reasons to eliminate one or the other ... or look for a line reference that could adequately support one or the other.

Here, lines 45-50 will accomplish both ends.

(B) can be supported by these lines ... the weirdest part of (B) would be justifying the word "should". Lines 45-50 clearly tell us that proponents of the analytic method "did" study the parts of a system with an awareness of the laws and initial conditions of the system. So, to pick (B) we would have to accept that since analytic scientists "did" what (B) describes that they would probably agree that (B) is what "should" be done.

(C) is contradicted by these lines ... the scariest part of (C) would be justifying the extreme phrase "it is not possible". However, even more importantly in this case, the chronology of (C) is contradicted by the chronology of lines 45-50. The analytic scientists looked at the laws/initial conditions of the system BEFORE they looked at individual parts. (C) says that you have to look at the parts before you look at the laws/initial conditions of the system.

Hope that helps.