LSAT Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions
- Conclusion Indicators
- Author Attitude
- Function Question
- Scope Shift
- Main Point Question
- Flaw Identification
- Thesis
- Alternative Explanation
- Passage Map
- Local Question
- Biconditional
- Modus Tollens
- Ad Hominem
- Required Assumption Question
- Most
- Correlation and Causation Flaw
- Control Group
- Confounder
- Global Question
- Modus Ponens
- Part-Whole Confusion
- Division Fallacy
- Flaw Question
- Parallel Flaw Question
- Negation Test
- Missing Link
- Conditional Rule
- Degree Language
- Some
- Percentage–Amount Confusion
- Random Assignment
- Confidence Calibration
- Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
- Contrapositive
- Denying the Antecedent
- Necessary Condition
- Equivocation
- Passage Viewpoint
- Quantifiers
- Overlap Principle
- Faulty Comparison
- Disagreement Test
- Reasoning Flaw
- Composition Fallacy
- Weaken Question
- Application Question
- Inference Question
- Counterargument
- Causal Conclusion
- Qualification
- Premise
- Sufficient Condition
- Unwarranted Generalization
- Circular Reasoning
- Reading Comprehension (RC) Inference
- Only If
- Confounding Variable
- Blind Review
- Conditional Logic Chain
- Comparative Passage
- Argumentative Writing
- Warrant
- Survivorship Bias
- Concession
- Conclusion
- Premise Indicators
- Must Be True Question
- Passage Structure
- Detail Question
- Comparative Synthesis
- Unless
- Equivocation Flaw
- Subject-Shift Flaw
- Necessary/Sufficient Confusion
- Stimulus
- Strengthen/Weaken Question
- Resolve the Discrepancy
- Perspective Analysis
- Counterexample
- Temporal Fallacy
- Relative–Absolute Confusion
- Affirming the Consequent
- Biased Evidence
- Context Shift
- Sufficient Assumption Question
- Argument Part
- Selection Bias
- Unrepresentative Sample
- Base Rate
- Timed–Blind Review Gap
- Formal Logic
- Most Strongly Supported
- Function / Purpose
- Role in Argument
- Method of Reasoning
- Assumption (Necessary)
- Point At Issue
- Resolve / Paradox
- Parallel Reasoning
- Strengthen
- Attitude / Tone
- Structure
- Principle
- Comparative Passages