LSAT 31, Reading Comprehension, Q17, LSATHacks

RC Question 17 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: Classic LSAT. You need to figure out what line 32 refers to. It says “this….view”. “This” usually refers to something that was said just before. 

Read the end of the previous paragraph. It mentions the iconoclastic view: Haraway’s idea that there is no single objective reality. 

Iconoclastic means “idol-smasher” (someone who upsets church dogma), but you don’t need to know that. You just have to get that it means something like “unusual”.

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1. CORRECT. Line 30 pretty much says this directly. 
2. “This” in line 32 refers to something that was already said. But the “Story of Primatology” is only mentioned later, on line 35.
3. Line 19-21 does say this. But that’s too far removed from line 30. “This…view” refers to lines 28-32. You can tell by the word “finally”: it introduces a new view.
4. Way too far back. That’s lines 15-19. Why would the word “this” on line 32 refer all the way back there? 
5. Same as B. “This” refers to something said earlier, while causal narratives are only mentioned in lines 38-42. 

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