LSAT 63, Reading Comprehension, Q25, LSATHacks

RC Question 25 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: The authors have somewhat different opinions on objectivity. The only thing they have in common is that they agree it’s important.

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1. Neither passage says what is possible for most historians.
2. CORRECT. See lines 1-2 and 27-33. The author of passage B doesn’t explicitly say that “objectivity” is what separates history from propaganda. The author of passage B uses their first paragraph to describe the traits that separate history from propaganda. Then they mention objectivity in line 33. The “yet” at the start of that sentence links objectivity with the concepts described in the first paragraph. It should be clear from context and objectivity is what separates history from propaganda. 
3. Only passage A says this. Passage B says objective historians should make “a powerful argument”. This might include a political alliance if the historian judged that one political group was objectively correct.
4. Neither passage mentions this: it seems a pretty big obstacle to objectivity.
   You’d need to use other historians to judge whether you are objective, and neither passage mentions doing this.
5. Neither passage mentions changes in historical scholarship over time, or how common objective historians are.

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