Flash Cards

[ShehryarB30]

I was going through the flashcards on Draw it. There it said that "There are two spots after T but before S." and drew it as T_ _ S. won't we Draw it as T_S as it did not specifically say exactly two spots. My understanding was when it says exactly two spots that is when we draw it as T_ _S. Could you pls explain this.

[ohthatpatrick]

If we had T _ S, let's put a name for that spot in between.

T A S.

Can we currently say that "there are two spots after T but before S"?

No, because A is the only spot that is after T but before S.

If we had
T A B S
we could say that A and B are "two spots that are after T but before S".

If we had
T A B C S
could we say "there are two spots after T but before S"?

Not really, there are three things, A / B / C, that are after T but before S.
Even though it doesn't say the word exactly, we still interpret that as exactly.

If I say, "I have two brothers", you don't interpret that as "Patrick has at least two brothers". You interpret that as "Patrick has exactly two brothers".

In fairness, I'm 99% sure that on the actual LSAT rule that we're ripping off for this flashcard, they did actually add the word "exactly", so they would probably throw us that bone.

Test 51, game 3 is where that flashcard comes from.