Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

To exist is to be something, to possess a specific identity. This is the Law of Identity: A is A. Facts are facts, independent of any consciousness. No amount of passionate wishing, desperate longing or hopeful pleading can alter the facts. Nor will ignoring or evading the facts erase them: the facts remain, immutable. Reality — that which exists — has no alternatives, no competitors, nothing “transcending” it. To embrace existence is to reject all notions of the supernatural and the mystical, including God.

  1. To exist is to discount all notions of worldly and unworldly interventions that tend to change a fact.

  2. To exist is to become a fact that acknowledges itself in nothing more or less than being itself.

  3. All reality is fact and is far removed from everything unworldly.

  4. That which exists cannot change despite importunities to God.
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Explanation
  1. Existence does not mean that one should discount or deny all ideas that tend to cause a change.
    1. True. The fact remains as is, nothing more or less than itself.
    2. True. All reality is fact and removed from anything that transcends it. However, this option cannot be called the essence of the paragraph, as it focuses only on one aspect of existence.
    3. True, but again it does not capture the essence. It does not explain what existence means.

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