LSAT 105 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q23

LR Question 23 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Donna claims to have found the museum’s current …

QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Parallel Reasoning

CONCLUSION: Donna’s claim is false.

REASONING: She didn’t find this exhibition as interesting as other exhibitions. Yet all critic reviews say this exhibition is the most interesting one.

ANALYSIS: Donna’s claim is about her own reaction. She’s not saying: objectively, the exhibition was worse. She’s just saying she found it less interesting.

Critical reviews can disagree with Donna’s taste, but they don’t prove her personal experience was false.

This argument is silly. It’s mixing up what someone personally found interesting with what critics judged to be interesting.

We need an answer where someone says they personally felt a certain way about a thing, and the argument says that claim must be false because experts/others judged the thing differently.

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1. Alice claims the assignment is completed, and her supervisor says the task hasn’t been completed. That’s a factual disagreement about whether the assignment is done, not a disagreement between personal taste and expert judgment.
2. Morris claims to have seen a fire, but records show he was out of the country when it happened. That directly contradicts his factual claim.
3. Denise and Albert could both have gone to the party to please each other. Albert’s motive doesn’t automatically disprove Denise’s motive.
4. CORRECT. Loren claims to like the taste of the fish. Others say the fish tastes dreadful. But other people’s judgment about the fish doesn’t prove Loren is lying about her own taste. This matches the original flaw: treating outside judgments as disproving someone’s personal reaction.
5. Douglas claims he climbed the tallest mountain, but the atlas says there are taller mountains. That directly disproves his factual claim, unlike Donna’s subjective claim about what she found interesting.