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Category Archives: LSAT in Real Life
Spend the Holiday with Some Presidential LSAT Flaws
It’s Presidents’ Day, which means a day off for the lucky ones among us. Since our business here at Blueprint is the LSAT, it’s also the perfect time to look at some President-related logical fallacies. The official federal holiday is in honor of George Washington’s birthday, but we’ll take a broader look.
Equivocation: Bill Clinton, our 42nd President, famously said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Now that we know many of the details of his affair with one Monica Lewinsky, it would be easy to call this statement a fantastic lie. We could also say that President Clinton was simply doing what an LSAT flaw question answer choice might call equivocating with respect to a key term.
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Feb 20, 2012 - 5:11 pm - By Aaron Cohn
Tags: law school, logical fallacies, LSAT, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Down! Set! LSAT Logical Fallacies at the Super Bowl! Hike!
Super Bowl XLVI, also known as “Super Bowl Extra Large Six,” is a mere three days away. You have exactly that much time to fly to Las Vegas and lay down your savings on the Giants, the Patriots, the over, the under, or whether or not Madonna kisses Gisele Bündchen during the halftime show.
By this time next week, the big game will be a thing of the past and the February LSAT will once again engulf your concentration. But there’s no reason we can’t tie the two subjects together.
So throw on your jersey, huddle around, and read these five Super Bowl-themed logical fallacies.
HUT! HUT! HIKE!
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Feb 2, 2012 - 6:44 pm - By Hank
Tags: february lsat, logical fallacies, LSAT, lsat in real life
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Finding LSAT Flaws in Real Wife
Being both an LSAT instructor and a married man can be pretty hard. Trying to use logic with a woman is already hard enough, but a married woman? Think there’ll be fallacies? Brother, you don’t know the half of it.
Take last Friday night. So I’m out with Mike at the bar, and I get home pretty late. So what? I work hard. I deserve a beer or two. Anyway, Deborah’s waiting up, going on and on about missing dinner or some garbage. And as if that wasn’t enough, she starts saying that I’m drunk. Classic temporal fallacy. Sure, I was at the bar, and sure, I maybe had a couple pitchers, but that was at the bar. Just because I was drunk then doesn’t mean I was drunk when I got home. What’s true about the past doesn’t have to be true of the future. And besides, if I were drunk, would I be able to drive myself home? That shut Deborah up.
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Jan 23, 2012 - 8:00 pm - By Colin Elzie
Tags: fallacies, LSAT, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Viva Las Vegas: The City of LSAT Flaws
I recently spent a few days in Vegas. What I learned was that, while what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, what happens in Vegas will also cause you to score poorly on the LSAT. Sin City is also the City of LSAT flaws.
VEGAS LSAT FLAW NO. 1: EXCLUSIVITY
While walking down the Strip, I was propositioned by a very nice, and I’m sure completely disease-free, lady of the night. When I politely declined her invitation to do something referred to as the ‘Chicago Slough,’ she questioned my sexual orientation.
No, Felicẻ, there are plenty of reasons I might decline your offer. Maybe I’m in a committed relationship. Maybe you’re just not my type. Maybe I don’t like paying for sex.
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Jan 18, 2012 - 6:10 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: LSAT, LSAT fallacies, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Turkey Day LSAT Exercises
If you are studying for the quickly approaching December LSAT, you have probably reached a level of temporary insanity by this point. It is likely that you are accusing your significant other of committing fallacies during your intimate moments, you are having dreams in which you are actually one of the players in a game, and you are anticipating the primary purpose of each US Weekly article that you read at the gym. The good news is that you might be able to use this as a defense if you commit a crime in the next ten days. On the negative side, you are starting to smell pretty bad and your friends are avoiding your calls.
But screw it, I say we amp it up a notch. Let’s bring the LSAT to Thanksgiving.
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Investigating Some Thanksgiving, LSAT Coincidences
Hey guys, Thanksgiving is a week away! The LSAT is two weeks and two days away! Coincidence? Maybe not. When you think about it, there’s a lot of similarities between the LSAT and Thanksgiving. According to Wikipedia, Thanksgiving, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has officially been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated, while The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. But the similarities don’t end there!
The first LSAT was given in 1948. In 1941, Thanksgiving was set as falling on the fourth Thursday in November.
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Nov 17, 2011 - 6:53 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Tackling Some LSAT Fallacies in the NFL
Watching the NFL can be an annoying pastime for anyone familiar with the LSAT. Commentators, prognosticators and whoever Frank Caliendo is portraying that week can’t help but make fallacious leaps and bounds in their analysis and predictions. Sometimes it’s as complicated as “Team A will beat Team B because Team A beat Team C and Team C beat Team B,” and sometimes it’s as simple as “Team A will beat Team B because Team B stinks.” We as fans are just as guilty of this kind of erroneous logic.
That’s why I thought it would be fun to take a look around the league and apply some of Blueprint’s flaw types — like a Super Bowl of LSAT silliness. So let’s kick it off:
Chatter amongst NFL commentators indicates that the majority of fans believe Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the best player in the league.
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Nov 15, 2011 - 6:18 pm - By Hank
Tags: logical fallacies, LSAT, LSAT blog, LSAT fallacies, lsat in real life
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Oh, the Humanity!: Comparing Dostoevsky to the LSAT
The October 2011 LSAT introduced many of you to the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, which is the first worthwhile thing it’s done for most of you (I kid). Dostoevsky is only matched by Vonnegut in my literary heart. His novels, especially The Brothers Karamazov, manage to include so many universal themes that they speak to humanity itself, and no less. I’m trying to sound like a grandiose, self-important literary critic here; is it working?
Anyway, The Brothers K is my favorite novel, but it’s one hell of a depressing story. Which, you know, makes it a little like the LSAT. List time!
1) Crazy names
Mitya. Vanya. Alexeichik. Vanechka. Ivan. Mitri. Mitenka. Alyosha. Dmitri. Would you believe those are only three people?
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Nov 1, 2011 - 6:01 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: LSAT, lsat analysis, lsat in real life, october 2011 lsat, October LSAT
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Halloween LSAT Flaws are Spooky Stuff
Halloween is just around the corner. It’s a holiday best associated with C-cast horror movies, miniature ghouls and goblins crowding the streets, and excessive sugar-fueled hallucinations, ones that may seem completely removed from your LSAT study, but, as you may be noticing after completing lesson 6, flawed reasoning is everywhere, and this haunted holiday is no exception. So, to help you get in the holiday spirit, let’s analyze some of the most prevalent Halloween flaws.
See if you can spot the flaws in the following arguments:
All of my friends know and love Link, so my carefully constructed Link costume will make me the life of the party.
Unlikely.
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Oct 28, 2011 - 7:09 pm - By Nick Rey
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Halloween Costume Ideas Inspired by the LSAT
Goblins, ghouls, vampires, ghosts, witches, pumpkins, earth-toned adornments . . . LSAT? Damn skippy.
It’s okay, I understand your consternation. I hope you understand my love of polysyllabic nouns (and adjectives for that matter). It’s true, though; you needn’t look any further than the LSAT to find inspiration for your Halloween costume this year. Clearly, greater explanation is required. Without further ado, a list of some the best LSAT-inspired costumes that yours truly could come up with:
1. The Study Zombie
Yes, the undead are currently all the rage. You needn’t look any further than AMC for evidence of their popularity (and by the way, I LOVE The Walking Dead). However, as many LSAT students will no doubt attest, those zombies aren’t actually the result of some Mad Cow Disease mutation or Hell being a bit too full. No sir.
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Oct 19, 2011 - 7:09 pm - By Alex Davis
Tags: LSAT, lsat halloween, lsat in real life, LSAT preparation
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