LSAT 108 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q9

RC Question 9 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The first half of the passage describes the problems with objectivism.

The second half of the passage describes a solution proposed by some scholars: teach people who don’t have legal training how to tell alternative legal narratives.

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1. This is close. But the scholars in paragraph three don’t want to give people legal training. They want to teach them how to tell a new type of story (lines 44-45).
2. The passage doesn’t mention the adversarial atmosphere of the law. This answer plays on outside assumptions that the law is adversarial.
3. CORRECT. This is better than A. The scholars in paragraph three wanted to give people a new type of story to tell the court.
4. Similar to A. The legal scholars don’t like objectivism. They want to give people a new way to tell their subjective stories. Lines 32-33 show that the author thinks objectivism is bad.
5. No scholar says this. It’s true that there’s no single, objective description of any event, but the passage is broader than that.