In a party game, one person

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct83% picked this

   The presumption that something has order and coherence can lead one to imbue it with

   Why this is right

   This has lovable safe language "X can lead to Y". It ends up being the most supportable answer, but it's kind of obnoxious. Eddie presumed that Marsha had actually related a dream to the remaining partygoers. Does that mean that Eddie presumed that Marsha's dream story had order and coherence? No, not really. It's a dream, after all. The dream stories I've heard from people are often nonsensical and break all kinds of rules. But LSAT wants us to be thinking, "Eddie thinks Marsha told a dream ... dreams are like stories that just didn't happen ... Eddie thinks that the partygoers were told a story with order and coherence". Because Eddie thought a real dream story was told, he interprets the random Yes/No answers given by the partygoers in a way that results in his version of the dream having surprising "coherence".

   Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   83%
2. B

   Opposite5% picked this

   One is less apt to reach a false understanding of what someone says than to make no sense

   This would maybe be okay if the answer said "more apt". Eddie was receiving a nonsensical, random series of Yes/No answers. From that, he reached a false understanding of what Marsha's dream story was (there was no story, but he thinks there was). So rather than making no sense at all out of what the partygoers were saying, Eddie reached a false understanding.

   5%
3. C

   Unsupported2% picked this

   Dreams are often just collections of images and ideas without

   We don't really have any evidence of what dreams are like, in the sense that Marsha didn't actually tell anyone about her dream. But in the sense that Eddie made a coherent story out of the Yes/No answers, Eddie's conception of the dreams definitely DID have coherence.

   2%
4. D

   Too Strong: requires6% picked this

   Interpreting another person's dream requires that one understand the dream as

   This is the typical kind of trap answer for this sort of question, where it more or less reinforces the story but with language that is far too amped up. Eddie's interpretation of what he thought the dream was involved coherence, but we can't say from this that interpreting a dream requires that one understand it as a narrative.

   6%
5. E

   Doesn't Match5% picked this

   People often invent clever and coherent stories to explain their behavior

   Eddie came the closest to "inventing" a clever and coherent story, but he wasn't trying to explain his behavior. He was trying to reconstruct Martha's dream.

   5%