Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. Our failures to understand things flow from our lack of sufficient knowledge of facts - that is, from our inability to grasp their analytical relationships and not from any radical weakness of the human mind itself.
B. It is therefore impossible without flagrant logical contradiction for reason to renounce reason entirely.
C. That can only be done in the name of intuitionism, traditionalism, or sheer irrationalism, that is to say, for reasons which have no standing in the light of reason.
D. Reason cannot be condemned root and branch except by reason itself.
A. Our failures to understand things flow from our lack of sufficient knowledge of facts - that is, from our inability to grasp their analytical relationships and not from any radical weakness of the human mind itself.
B. It is therefore impossible without flagrant logical contradiction for reason to renounce reason entirely.
C. That can only be done in the name of intuitionism, traditionalism, or sheer irrationalism, that is to say, for reasons which have no standing in the light of reason.
D. Reason cannot be condemned root and branch except by reason itself.
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