LG question's language convention
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:36 am
Logic game-2 (Doctor Yamata logic game) in PT-7 has the statement "She conducts research on exactly one morning".
Does the statement preclude research being conducted on afternoon (if "exactly" only applies to "mornings" then the statement may not prevent her from conducting research in the afternoon)? Even though in this logic game, it turns out she can not conduct research in the afternoon due to some other information present in the logic game. However, I am unsure if the above statement also infers no research in the afternoon.
Another statement in the same LG "She lectures in the afternoon on exactly two consecutive calendar days" can be interpreted to preclude morning lectures or not depending on whether the limitation of "exactly two consecutive days' applies only to lectures in the afternoon or to lectures in general.
This leads to a wider question.
Does LSAT always employ the language of the form "X does activity_Y during hours_Z" (the above statement is of this form) to mean that -- X does activity_Y only during hours_Z and at no other times?
Or, do LSAT authors mean that -- X certainly does activity_Y during hours_Z, but X may also do activity_Y during other times?
Does the statement preclude research being conducted on afternoon (if "exactly" only applies to "mornings" then the statement may not prevent her from conducting research in the afternoon)? Even though in this logic game, it turns out she can not conduct research in the afternoon due to some other information present in the logic game. However, I am unsure if the above statement also infers no research in the afternoon.
Another statement in the same LG "She lectures in the afternoon on exactly two consecutive calendar days" can be interpreted to preclude morning lectures or not depending on whether the limitation of "exactly two consecutive days' applies only to lectures in the afternoon or to lectures in general.
This leads to a wider question.
Does LSAT always employ the language of the form "X does activity_Y during hours_Z" (the above statement is of this form) to mean that -- X does activity_Y only during hours_Z and at no other times?
Or, do LSAT authors mean that -- X certainly does activity_Y during hours_Z, but X may also do activity_Y during other times?