Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Such as the experiences involved in looking at the cat and the mat.
(B) A statement is a posteriori (Latin, literally from the latter) just if it cannot be known to be true or false independently of experience.
(C) 'The cat is on the mat' is a posteriori because it cannot be known to be true or false independently of experience.
(D) One can establish whether it is true or false only by having certain experiences.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Philosophers often contrast objective reality and subjective appearances.
(B) How things seem from different points of view and how things really are.
(C) For example, one can contrast how the sand really is, independently of any subjective point of view, and the different ways it appears through a fish's eyes and through human eyes.
(D) In this context, the absolute is usually taken to mean the totality of objective reality, which transcends all subjective points of view upon it.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Absolute advantage, in economics, is a concept of trade in which one country can produce a quantity of a product in a more efficient manner (that is, with fewer resources of labour, land and/ or capital) than another country.
(B) However, these statistics do not carry the implication that Japan should specialize in steel and the UK should not because Japan might be even better relative to the UK at other things.
(C) For example, in $1981$, Japan produced a ton of steel with only $9.4$ man-hours at a cost of only $$502$, compared with $16.5$ man hours and $$622$ in the UK.
(D) Not only that but neither absolute nor comparative advantage are necessarily static for all time: Once, UK steel producers were more efficient than the Japanese.
(E) The real guide to specialization and to maximizing the gains from trade is comparative advantage.

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) It marks off the beginning of mathematics from what went before.
(B) Ever since this discovery, abstraction has been a major theme in the development of mathematics, as those interested in the field have come up with ideas further and further divorced from their basis in the real world, and then sought ways to bring them back to tell us things about the real world which we might otherwise not have known.
(C) The discoverer of abstraction was the person who first realized that numbers are independent of the objects being counted, that two oranges and two apples (for instance) share a property, "twoness", which is independent of what kinds of fruit they are.
(D) Abstraction, the action of divorcing properties of physical objects from the objects themselves, is a fundamental concept, perhaps the most fundamental concept, in mathematics.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) The aim was to capitalize on the rising status of the artist as the exponent of a liberal art.
(B) Other cities soon followed Florence's example, a notable case being Rome, where the Academy of St Luke was founded in 1593 with Frederico Zuccaro as its president.
(C) Towards the end of the 16th century, groups of European painters and sculptors, dissatisfied with the venality and artisanal aspects of the guild system, joined together into academies of art which sought to promote the intellectual and creative aspects of producing art over that of their craft-based predecessors.
(D) In France, the Academic Royale de Peintureet de Sculpture was founded in 1648 around the ambitious and politically astute Charles Le Brun, who enlisted the royal support which was to make this academy the envy of Europe.
(E) The first artists' academy (as opposed to the gathering of dilettanti, antiquarians and amateurs also called academies), was established in 1563 in Florence by the artist and historiographer Giorgio Varansi, under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici and with Michelangelo at its head.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) The accommodation theory, in linguistics, starts from the premise that speech accommodation takes place when people modify their speech so that it conforms more with the way their conversational partner speaks.
(B) For example, the speeed at which people talk, the length of both pauses and utterances, the kind of vocabulary and syntax used, as well as intonation, voice pitch and pronunciation are all subject to the accommodation process.
(C) A wide range of subtle adaptations have been observed, which tend to occur more or less unconsciously.
(D) This kind of convergence is by no means an automatic feature of all conversations, and we can discern certain social contexts in which accommodation can be predicted.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Managerial accountability, whether in the public or the private sector, similarly requires that managers be answerable for the tasks which they have contracted to perform, according to agreed standards of competence.
(B) In parliamentary systems, ministers are held to account through oral and written questions in some cases through 'interpellation', that is, through requiring them to give a detailed response to a question on policy or administration.
(C) Regimes in which rulers cannot be held to account, either by representatives or by judges, are called arbitrary and authoritarian.
(D) Political accountability is the hallmark of responsible and representative government.
(E) Political accountability requires the actions of politicians, or public officials, whether they be administrative, ethical or financial, to be open to inspection, scrutiny and challenge.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Their aim was to write about everyday phenomena, and to use words and images for their primary, stripped-down meanings, without metaphor, clogged syntax or other forms of poeticizing.
(B) The acmeists were particularly opposed to the mysticism and erotic suggestiveness of symbolist writing, and to the experiments of Mayakovsky and the surrealists.
(C) The idea of cleansing language, of using words for words' sake alone, has been a recurring feature of poetry, not least in the 20th century (for example in the work of T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams) but the acmeists, in a way characteristic of artists in the 1910s, were the only ones to give it a name and a specific agenda.
D) Acmeism (from Greek ame, 'point) was a movement in Russian poetry of the 1920s led by the writers Niloai Gumilev and Sergei Gorodetsky, and followed by Anna Akmatova and Osip Mandelstam.
E) They published a magazine, Apollo, from, 1909-17, and were denounced by the authorities as decadent and individualist': socialism demanded realism of a rather different kind.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Not all actions are bodily movements, and the causal theory of action also applies to mental actions such as imagining and calculating.
(B) It is not enough for imagining a teddy bear that one has an image as of a teddy bear.
(C) If a hallucinogenic drug causes me to have an image as of a teddy bear, then I have not imagined a teddy bear, since my having the image as of a teddy bear is something that has happened to me, rather than an action of mine.
(D) A mental event is an action only if it is caused by an appropriate intention of the subjects.
(E) Having an image is an action of mine only if it is preceded by my having an appropriate intention. And if, as a matter of complete coincidence, intended to imagine a toy just before a hallucinogenic drug caused me to have an image as of a teddy bear, then I have not imagined a teddy bear.