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What is the author's likely strategy in connecting science to "common sense" (lines 10, 14, 15)?
Transcript
- 00:04
Okay Ap england people we've got another passage here from
- 00:08
a zoology book in eighteen eighty A little bit interesting
- 00:11
They're asking what's the author's likely strategy and connecting science
- 00:15
to common sense All right then we just skim right
- 00:22
up to ten here Rift have signs that shot up
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- 00:25
from the common sense All right got that fourteen common
- 00:29
sense is science exactly into bars and fulfills the ideal
- 00:32
of common sense That is these facts as they are
- 00:34
or at any rate without distortion Blood black Okay so
- 00:38
let's think about this The author says that scientific research
- 00:41
is different in kind Right there he says it from
- 00:44
the way people deal with the communist purposes of everyday
- 00:48
existence He's starting his book by demystifying signs for people
- 00:51
who may be intimidated or even blinded by the subject
- 00:54
Well the other choices could be accurate statements but they're
- 00:57
not strategic to the author's intent Here While scientific observation
- 01:01
is the pay attending upon our senses the two senses
- 01:03
being connected here are not the same giver to see
- 01:06
That would be weird The author is trying to relate
- 01:07
science to what while the common reader but not actual
- 01:11
scientists So get rid of a The author doesn't want
- 01:13
to bring science down to the level of the commoners
- 01:16
experience Get rid of e Rather he tells us that
- 01:18
science is common sense at its best that makes sense
- 01:21
So get rid of d Presumably that whole common sense
- 01:24
thing you know the haircut a good night's sleep in
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a triple cappuccino Yeah that's what we do here So
- 01:29
the answer is b to show that science is an
- 01:31
extension of everyday reasoning It's cool It's part of life
- 01:35
Love it Live it Science The shmoop out of it
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