LSAT 115 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q24

RC Question 24 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Subjectivists are mentioned in paragraph 2. They say we need experience to learn, including our own mental experience. But science ignores that experience.

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1. The subjectivists didn’t say that objectivism contradicts introspection: they said objectivism ignores introspection. See lines 24-27.
    
   (It’s true that in lines 20-22 we’re told that objective data sometimes conflicts with subjective evidence. But subjectivists might simply argue that subjective data should be considered too, and the conflict between the two resolved. In most cases there may be no conflict.)
2. CORRECT. Specifically, objectivism ignores introspection. See lines 24-27. 
3. Subjectivists don’t say this. It’s sort of absurd. Subjectivists aren’t scientists; they’re philosophers. If this answer choice were true, then subjectivists (and objectivist philosophers) couldn’t understand objective data. 
4. The subjectivists don’t say this. And the context is given in lines 5-8: scientific knowledge has surpassed philosophy and given new answers to age-old philosophical questions.
5. Not true. Lines 1-6 make clear that science is answering questions once asked by philosophers.