LSAT 155 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q27

RC Question 27 Explanation

DISCUSSION: What principle underlies Passage B, but not Passage A? In its discussion of the study, Passage B says that the concept of numbers might be independent of language. Passage A doesn’t discuss the idea of language creating concepts at all. We need to look for an answer choice that says that these two things might be independent (or at least language didn’t create the concept of numbers).

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1. Incompatibility isn’t discussed and this principle isn’t alluded to in Passage B.
2. CORRECT. This matches our prephrase.
3. Language preventing someone from possessing certain concepts isn’t discussed and Passage B.
4. We don’t know if a concept’s being better expressed in one language makes that language the concept’s creator.
5. Language obliging speakers to think about a concept is mentioned in Passage A, not Passage B.