Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Goldstein cleverly compares the objective of the so-called “formalist program” to find a master list of axioms, from which all of mathematics could be derived by rigid logical deduction, to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules.

  1. to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules

  2. with a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, to logical rules

  3. to a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, to logical rules

  4. with a “Communist takeover of mathematics” in which individuality and intuition would be subjugated, for the common good, by logical rules

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C Correct answer
Explanation

In communist ideology individuality will not be subjected 'by' but 'to' logical rules.