Reading ComprehensionDifficulty: Easy

PT108 S1 P2 Q12 Explanation

Non-Objectivist Discourse

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Passage

In recent years, a growing belief that the way society decides what to treat as true is controlled through largely unrecognized discursive practices has led legal reformers to examine the complex interconnections between narrative and law. In many legal systems, legal judgments are based on competing stories about events. Without having witnessed in law from selective perception, or from subjective judgments based on prior experiences, values, and beliefs.

The societal harm caused by the assumption of objectivist principles in traditional legal discourse is that, historically, the stories judged to be objectively true are those told by people who are trained in legal discourse, while the stories of language of the law are rejected as false.

Legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, and Mari Matsuda have sought empowerment for the latter group of people through the construction of alternative legal narratives. Objectivist legal discourse systematically disallows the language of emotion and experience by focusing on cognition in its narrowest sense. These legal reformers propose replacing such by overcoming differences in background and training and forming a new collectivity based on emotional empathy.

What this question is testing

Inference

Your task

Find what must be true based on what the passage or stimulus states.

Common trap

Answers that are plausible or likely but not actually guaranteed by the text.

Winning move

Keep only the choice the statements fully support — eliminate anything that requires an extra assumption.

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The question
12.

It can be inferred from the passage that Williams’ Bell, and Matsuda believe which one of the following to be a central

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    incorporating into the law the latest developments in the fields of

  2. Trap9% picked this

    eradicating from legal judgments discourse with a particular point

  3. Trap5% picked this

    granting all participants in legal proceedings equal access to training in the forms and manipulation

  4. Correct84% picked this

    making the law more responsive to the discursive practices of a wider

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

    Skill tested: Inference · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Trap0% picked this

    instilling an appreciation of legal history and methodology in all the participants in

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