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Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three sentences need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.
- His long association with the theatre had yielded dividends as it had taught him to mould this familiar material into dramatic shape.
- Obviously audiences were in a mood to listen to a playwright ready to fix a remorseless gaze on the contradictions within a personality, even the most insignificant one, a playwright who refused to offer easy legal remedies to social problems or to pin his faith on a change of heart in men.
- Acutely conscious of the violent impulses behind a respectable facade and of the overwhelming compulsions of human nature, he could place his discoveries within a recognizably Indian context, essentially middle class, and rooted.
- For, on the one hand, it unleashed characters in a state of collision with accepted norms, and, on the other, it revealed ineffectual middle class types with an ugly, vicious leer lurking under a smug surface.
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Since W. D. Ross, John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, Barbara Herman, Christine Korsgaard, Thomas Hill, Allen Wood – and most recently Derek Parfit – made Kant-oriented ethics into a serious player in mainstream contemporary analytic ethical theory, it is commonplace to distinguish between Kant's ethics, i.e., the ethical theory that is developed in Kant's own writings, and Kantian ethics, i.e., contemporary ethical theory inspired by Kant's writings in moral philosophy, which is not slavishly restricted to Kant's own doctrines and is rationally defensible on grounds independent of Kant's texts.
Correspondingly, it is very natural to see a parallel distinction between Kant's metaphysics and epistemology, and Kantian metaphysics and epistemology. But even despite the explicit endorsement of Kant-oriented metaphysics and epistemology by Peter Strawson, Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, and John McDowell, this way of doing metaphysics and epistemology has failed to be accorded the philosophical respect of most mainstream contemporary analytic metaphysicians and epistemologists. Indeed, Kantian metaphysics and epistemology is held in generally very low esteem, and not taken seriously at all – sharply unlike, say, the not dissimilar anti-realism developed by Michael Dummett or the Aufbau period Carnap-inspired constructive phenomenalism developed by Bas van Fraassen and more recently by David Chalmers, or for that matter the panpsychism or panprotopsychism speculatively postulated by Thomas Nagel and Chalmers, all of which are taken very seriously indeed by most of the mainstream.
The reason for this sadly asymmetric state of affairs, I am afraid, is simply that idealism is a taboo word for most mainstream contemporary analytic metaphysicians and epistemologists. Anti-realism, phenomenalism, panpsychism, and panprotopsychism are all philosophically respectable, but idealism is unacceptable. And the thoroughly ugly label transcendental idealism only makes it worse. If you are an "idealist," then you are obviously a bad philosopher; and if you are a "transcendental idealist," then you are obviously a very bad philosopher. It is true that even if you are an idealist or a transcendental idealist, you may still be a good "historian of philosophy." But that is cold comfort indeed, especially in view of W.V.O. Quine's well-known and widely-accepted distinction between the two classes of philosophers – those who are interested in the history of philosophy, and those who are interested in philosophy. Given this sad state of philosophical affairs, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that most mainstream contemporary analytic metaphysicians and epistemologists have an unreasonable prejudice against Berkeley, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, middle and later Husserl, early Heidegger, earlier and later Wittgenstein, and also against all contemporary views importantly influenced by one or another of these philosophers.
What is transcendental idealism? Idealism, as such, starts with the assumption, held by classical Rationalists and classical Empiricists alike – not to mention by all phenomenologists and many contemporary mainstream analytic philosophers – that consciousness and intentionality are primitive irreducible facts about ourselves and about the world. Consciousness is subjective experience, and conscious intentionality is subjective experience of something or about something, hence conscious intentionality, more briefly put, is the characteristic "of-ness" or "about-ness" of themental. Then transcendental idealism adds to this mentalistic starting point the further classical Rationalist assumption – itself held by at least a significant minority of mainstream contemporary analytic philosophers – that normativity, apriority, and modality are also all primitive irreducible facts about ourselves and the world. Idealism, in turn, is a positive essentialist thesis about the mind-dependence of all the objects of conscious intentionality: All worldly things, properties, relations, and facts essentially include the actual or really possible existence of conscious intentional minds like ours.
Correspondingly, transcendental idealism is a positive essentialist thesis about the mind-conformity of all the formal or structural features of all the objects of rational conscious intentionality: All irreducibly normative, non-empirical, and modal features of all worldly things, properties, relations, and facts are essentially isomorphic with the formal or structural representations of actual or really possible rational conscious intentional minds like ours.
This two-part doctrine might be false. But, on the other hand, it also might be true. In any case, it is not in and of itself bad philosophy.
Qs 1. Which of the following can be inferred to be the opinion of the author regarding transcendental idealism?
a)The author feels that the two-part doctrine of transcendental idealism is more likely to be false and finds it justified that contemporary analytic metaphysicians hold it in low regard.
b)The author believes that transcendental idealism is not as bad a philosophy as idealism but unfortunately transcendental idealism is considered worse than idealism by contemporary analytic metaphysicians.
c)The author opines most of the rationalist contemporary analytic metaphysicians hold the same assumptions as those in transcendental idealism.
d)According to the author, transcendental idealism is unfairly regarded as bad philosophy by contemporary analytic metaphysicians.
Qs 2.According to the passage, what is the difference between idealism and transcendental idealism?
a)Idealism holds only consciousness and intentionality as primitive irreducible facts while transcendental idealism holds only normativity, modality and apriority as primitive irreducible facts.
b)While idealism asserts that all worldly perceptions depend on mental constructs of our consciousness, transcendental idealism emphasizes that only such features which are, or are akin to, normative, non-empirical and modal, depend on the considered mental constructs of our consciousness.
c)While the assumptions of idealism are held by most contemporary mainstream analytic philosophers, the assumptions of transcendental idealism are not held by any contemporary mainstream analytic philosophers.
d)While idealism deals with the mind-conformity of objects of conscious intentionality, transcendental idealism deals with the mind-dependence of objects of conscious intentionality.
Qs 3.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage regarding idealism?
a)Kant’s ethics is based on idealism whereas Kantian ethics is based on transcendental idealism.
b)Most of the contemporary analytic metaphysicians are idealists but only a few are transcendental idealists.
c)Kantian ethics is based on transcendental idealism which is not highly regarded by contemporary analytic metaphysicians.
d)Transcendental idealists are held in low esteem by contemporary analytic metaphysicians because they study Kantian metaphysics and epistemology.
Qs 4. Which of the following statements regarding W.V.O Quine is true?a)Quine believed that transcendental idealists had the potential to be good historians of philosophy but cannot be good philosophers.
b)Quine considered philosophers who are interested in philosophy to be superior to the philosophers interested in the history of philosophy.
c)Quine considered Berkeley, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, among others, to be historians of philosophy.
d)Quine was responsible for Kantian epistemology to be held in low esteem.
Qs 5. What, according to the passage, is the difference between Kantian ethics and Kant’s ethics?
a)The former refers to the ethics that are developed by Kant whereas the latter refers to the ethics developed based on Kant’s writings.
b)The former refers to the ethics developed by philosophers based on the Kant’s works whereas the latter refers to the ethics developed by philosophers based on the life of Kant.
c)The former refers to the ethics developed by philosophers based on the Kant’s works whereas the latter refers to the ethics developed by Kant.
d)The former refers to the ethics developed by modern philosophers based on Kant’s works whereas the latter refers to the ethics which are defensible on rational grounds.
Qs 6.According to the contemporary analytic metaphysicians, which of the following is accurate?
a)The philosophers who study Kantian ethics are very bad philosophers.
b)The philosophers who study Kant’s ethics are bad philosophers.
c)The philosophers who study Kantian ethics are good historians of philosophy.
d)The philosophers who study Kantian ethics are bad historians of philosophy.
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Critically,though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting of whatever you're looking at. Without your having to worry about it, your brain figures out what colour light is bouncing of the thing you're eyes are looking at.
Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three sentences need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.
a These by and large are curable cancers but require long-term follow-up as well as a significant amount of expenditure.
b While government should initiate a nationwide screening programme for the most prevalent cancers and invest in more affordable treatment centers, we too must meet our obligation to give cancer the stick with more information and less prejudice.
c There is more to this than meets the eye.
d But perhaps the saddest statistics are those of childhood survivorship which in our country are almost half of those in the developed world.
Parajumble:
A. With mounting criticism has also come growing praise for his vision to place Turkey prominently on the global map.
B. But is that really the primary concern of the Turks today, given that the majority of them, as polls show, find Mr. Erdogan's conservative values appealing?
C. Are they really proud of the paradoxes?
D. So we won't know till the next election.
E. The authoritarian and Islamist rule indicates a reversal of the secular state structure that Ataturk had succeeded in ushering in.
the most of our library, which was not given to theology, was given to poetry.
What does this sentence mean?
1. let say divided the library in two parts, one for theology and second for others. And from that others part, most of the books are of poetry.
2. Our our whole is not given to theology, instead most of the library is given to poetry.In other words Most of the books in the library were of poetry.
Someone pls explain, little confused.
Guys. question on para jumbles.
(1) The winning entry is the CESAR series of photographs which reframe perceptions of caesarian section birth, through startling portraits of the first seconds of life.
(2) They express the possibility that art and science can step into the void previously filled by religion.
(3) French photographer Christian Berthelot has been announced as the winner of the 10,000 Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2015.
(4) Indeed, like all great works of art that have been crafted, they are images of mesmeric beauty that stay on our retinas and in our memories.
(5) The theatrical nature of the lighting, compositions and iconography in the CESAR series echoes masterpieces of the Italian Baroque.
Solution is 31542.
My question is why can't it be 31524 as it also makes logical sense.
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In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
- (A) I only
- (E) III only
- (C) II only
- (D) I, II, and III
- B) I and III only
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The U.S. census is not perfect: thousands of Americans probably go uncounted. However, the basic statistical portrait of the nation painted by the census is accurate. Certainly some of the poor go uncounted, particularly the homeless; but some of the rich go uncounted as well, because they are often abroad or traveling between one residence and another.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above depends?
- (B) All Americans may reasonably be classified as either poor or rich.
- (E) The primary purpose of the census is to analyze the economic status of the American population.
- (D) The number of homeless Americans is approximately equal to the number of rich Americans.
- (C) The percentage of poor Americans uncounted by the census is close to the percentage of rich Americans uncounted.
- (A) Both the rich and the poor have personal and economic reasons to avoid being counted by the census.
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Monarch butterflies, whose average life span is nine months, migrate from the midwesternUnited States to selected forests outside Mexico City. It takes at least three generations of monarchs to make the journey, so the great-great-grandchildren who finally arrive in the Mexican forests have never been there before. Yet they return to the same trees their forebears left. Scientists theorize that monarchs, like homing pigeons, map their routes according to the earth's electromagnetic fields. As a first step in testing this theory, lepidopterists plan to install a low-voltage transmitter inside one grove of "butterfly trees" in the Mexican forests. If the butterflies are either especially attracted to the grove with the transmitter or especially repelled by it, lepidopterists will have evidence that______
(A) monarch butterflies have brains, however minuscule
(B) monarch butterflies are sensitive to electricity
(C) low-voltage electricity can affect butterflies, whether positively or adversely
(D) monarchs map their routes according to the earth's electromagnetic fields
(E) monarchs communicate in intergenerationally via electromagnetic fields
Dr. A: The new influenza vaccine is useless at best and possibly dangerous. I would never use it on a patient. Dr. B: But three studies published in the Journal of Medical Associates have rated that vaccine as unusually effective. Dr. A: The studies must have been faulty because the vaccine is worthless.
In which of the following is the reasoning most similar to that of Dr. A?
(A) Three of my patients have been harmed by that vaccine during the past three weeks, so the vaccine is unsafe.
(B) Jerrold Jersey recommends this milk, and I don’t trust Jerrold Jersey, so I won’t buy this milk.
(C) Wingzz tennis balls perform best because they are far more effective than any other tennis balls.
(D) I’m buying Vim Vitamins. Doctors recommend them more often than they recommend any other vitamins, so Vim Vitamins must be good.
(E) Since University of Muldoon graduates score about 20 percent higher than average on the GMAT, Sheila Lee, a University of Muldoon graduate, will score about 20 percent higher than average when she takes the GMAT. "
Over decades, people working on Einstein’s theory figured out that there would be multitudes of pairs of neutron stars and black holes that collide and merge, in galaxies near and capable of sending out ripples in the space time fabric. They were those who were painfully aware that these undulations would be near impossible to detect. In the best of cases, these waves would cause displacements smaller that the atomic nucleus: ocean waves crashing on the beaches at the other end of the country produce more discernible vibrations.
But there were others who thought it was worth trying to push technology to try and detect gravitational waves. Finding them would tell us we understand the mechanism that holds the stars and planets together and is responsible for our existence.
Einstein’s theory tells us we should conceive the force of gravity as a gentle warping of space itself. As a massive object moves or collides, space itself is stretched and compressed as the ripples created pass through it. Scientists at Caltech and MIT conceived a detector involving intense lasers being reflected on isolated mirrors kept 4 km apart, that could be used to detect these distortions in space. As a wave passes through, the distortions between these mirrors changes by minuscule amounts. This can be felt by analyzing these reflected lasers.
In the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) detectors then built in Louisiana and Washington, there were lots of difficulties to overcome. These were the most sensitive detectors of vibration and could sense quakes any where on the planet, lightning strikes on other continents, etc.
On September 14, 2015 the much weakened ripples of the billion – year – old black hole collision reached the Earth, in the form of a “chirp” that moved the LIGO laser beam a trillionth of a centimeter. Both LIGO stations detected them. So now we know that Einstein’s way of looking at gravity is correct.
15.Which of the following statements is not true about the LIGO detectors?
a)Its laser beams detected the ripple of a black hole collision.
b)These were built in Louisiana
c)These detectors were conceived at Caltech and MIT.
d)As compared to others these were the most sensitive detectors of vibrations.
Maliha, age 16, does not know what national budget is, because she is illiterate. She was married at 11 and became a mother at 13. Her rickshaw puller father died in a car accident on the day of her birth. Because of her father’s death on that day, neighbours have called her unlucky ever since. She still has to bear this name for her father’s death on the same day her child Momata was born.
Now, Maliha and her daughter live on the city streets without food, sometimes with a piece of bread, and eat remains of other’s meals, collecting them from the drains and garbage piles. She looked for a job as a household help, but couldn’t get one.
The fact is there are thousands of unfortunate girls and women like Maliha in our country and we need to feed them as part of ensuring their human rights and rehabilitation from hunger. Can they not demand a women- friendly budget to help them live a dignified normal life? Of course they have the right to demand and our constitution has given them those rights. The Constitution of our country ensures equal rights to all citizens, prohibits discrimination and inequality on the basis of sex and strives to promote social and economic equality. Specifically, with respect to women, Article 28 states “Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of state and public life.”
Our national budget should be women-friendly to benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged women. Our budget’s aim must ensure creation of employment and shelter, food, nutrition and education security for poor girls and women. In excluding them, we cannot reach any mainstream development goals.
So, dear honourable ministers of concerned ministeries: All helpless girls and women in our country, like Maliha and her daughter Momata, humbly request you to kindly allocate them adequate financial resources to lead a normal life.
The government’s national budget is a legal document passed at the national parliament. That is why every parliament member of each constituency is responsible for looking into the interests of the members of his or her constituency, especially of poor girls and women, to fulfil their five basic needs to live: food, clothing, shelter, education and health services. The government is as accountable to them as it is to everyone.
Factors such as poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, unemployment, slum housing, and a highly mobile population may contribute to large number of deaths from AIDS. So, the time is now to work sincerely and seriously to save the valuable lives of poor girls and women from poverty, hunger, stalking, violence and disasters. Girls and women are human beings too, and are stakeholders of the state. So, poor women and children should be included in the national budget, which should be gender-sensitive. Simone de Beauvoir appropriately wrote in her book, The Second Sex, “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
7.How is AIDS related to the plight of the women as described in the passage?a)The women have become more aware of AIDS as they witness it everyday.
b)The fact that they are devoid of every basic amenity, leads to lack of awareness and in turn results in death due to AIDS.
c)AIDS is the major reason for the plight of the women as given in the passage.
d)None of these
OA-B
Should not it be D?