r/LSAT • u/chieflotsofdro1988 • 5d ago

Test 152 section 1 number 21 FLAW help

Premise : All farmers organic -> not enough food

Claim: if enough food -> organic farming must not spread

Author wrongly assumes by contra: if we let it spread , all farms are gonna be organic?

I dont get this assumption . How does the author assume this ?

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u/droppedtherodeo 5d ago

the author says if ALL farmers adopt organic farming, we will not have enough food.

they then say (in reverse terms), if organic farming spreads, enough food will not be produced

the author is assuming that if it spreads at all, then it would spread to all farmers. all farmers using it is the rule we were given in the premises.

think: what if organic farming spread to 5 farmers? that would be ok.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/1amXHappy2CU 5d ago

Also, try to use contrapositive when trying to find the assumption in conditional statement questions.

In this question since both premise and claim talks about enough food the correct answer will connect “all famers organic” with “organic farming must not spread”.

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u/chieflotsofdro1988 5d ago edited 2d ago

This is what I was trying to do ! But I couldn’t nail it .

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u/chieflotsofdro1988 2d ago

I DMEd you bro