Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, five 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. None the less we hold that knowledge and proficiency belong to art rather than to experience and hence regard artists as wiser than men of experience on the ground that wisdom depends always upon knowledge.

B. The reason is that experience is knowledge of individual instances and art knowledge of universals, and that whatever we do or make is concerned with some individual.

C. For practical purposes, experience looks to be not at all inferior to art, we even see men of experience succeeding better than those who have theory without experience.

D. If then a physician without experience has the theory and knows the general principle but not the individual covered by it, he will often go wrong with his treatment, for the individual is what he has to cure.

E. For the physician does not cure Man, except incidentally, he does cure Callias or Socrates or someone else with a name of his own, who happens to be man.

  1. DEACB

  2. CBEDA

  3. EABDC

  4. CDEAB

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B Correct answer
Explanation

C begins the sequence as it expresses the main thought of this para jumble. As B is an explanation to C, thus, B follows C. E and D are connected by the word 'physician', but 'then' in D provides a link to E, thus, we have ED link. Hence, (2) is the answer.