Context Shift

LSAT Glossary

A reasoning flaw in which the premises and conclusion describe the same subject and characteristic, but the surrounding context has silently changed between them. Classic example: Ian's photos dropped from 6% to 4% of his computer memory, so he must have deleted some — ignoring that he may have added a larger drive and changed the baseline. LSAT phrasing: "fails to consider that circumstances may have changed."

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