LSAT 23 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q24

RC Question 24 Explanation

DISCUSSION: If you read the sentence, you’ll see the author says that the hypothesis “illustrates a common problem.”

So the theory isn’t new; other theories have done the same thing and have the same problem.

Lines 54-56 say the problem is that the hypothesis is vague and hard to prove.

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1. Hardly. The author says the hypothesis has a common problem.
2. The problem is “common”, so the hypothesis isn’t original.
3. CORRECT. See lines 54-56. The hypothesis is hard to prove.
4. This goes too far. It would be quite interesting if a “sense of peoplehood” could keep communities together. The problem is that it’s hard to know what that vague phrase means.
5. It’s not necessarily a problem if a theory is similar to earlier theories. The author never says anything like this.
   The problem is that the theory is flawed in the same way that earlier theories are.