LSAT 108 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q11

RC Question 11 Explanation

DISCUSSION: We know that objectivism focusses on “cognition” by ignoring emotion and experience.

Whatever cognition is, it isn’t emotion or experience. It sounds like cognition is logic or pure thought.

Lines 44-45 give you another clue. Cognition is referred to as “abstract discourse”.

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1. CORRECT. If you’re not using emotion, or things you’ve seen, then logic is pretty much the only thing left to use.
2. The sentence in question is talking about how to tell a legal story.
    
   So this answer makes no sense. You don’t tell a legal story by interpreting visual cues.
3. The full sentence says that objectivism doesn’t use emotion and experience (lines 41-44).
4. The third paragraph is talking about how people with no legal training tell their stories to the court. Judges may use cognition, but the passage wasn’t referring to them.
5. Lines 44-46 talk about replacing cognition with powerful personal stories, so they’re different things.