There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence:In psychosis, the world sometimes seems really real; everything is infused with meaning and significance.Paragraph:There are numerous ways madness can illuminate reality. ___1__. Kusters argues, for example, that Western philosophy has often focused solely on “the furniture of the world”, the kinds of things that make up reality. ___2__. Is there just one substance, or more? Does the world divide neatly into natural kinds? Kusters argues, on the basis of his own experiences with psychosis, that reality doesn't just come parcelled into kinds, but degrees. ___3__. At other times, the world seems hollow, insubstantial: a play of shadows that conceals the true reality behind it. ___4__. Sometimes the world can toggle back and forth between being more real and less real. Perhaps this observation should make us take more seriously the notion that reality comes in degrees.
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There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence:In psychosis, the world sometimes seems really real; everything is infused with meaning and significance.Paragraph:There are numerous ways madness can illuminate reality. _1. Kusters argues, for example, that Western philosophy has often focused solely on “the furniture of the world”, the kinds of things that make up reality. _2. Is there just one substance, or more? Does the world divide neatly into natural kinds? Kusters argues, on the basis of his own experiences with psychosis, that reality doesn't just come parcelled into kinds, but degrees. _3. At other times, the world seems hollow, insubstantial: a play of shadows that conceals the true reality behind it. _4. Sometimes the world can toggle back and forth between being more real and less real. Perhaps this observation should make us take more seriously the notion that reality comes in degrees.
Solution
The sentence "In psychosis, the world sometimes seems really real; everything is infused with meaning and significance." fits best in blank 3. This is because it continues the discussion about the varying perceptions of reality during psychosis, which is introduced in the sentence before blank 3. It also provides a contrast to the perception of the world as "hollow, insubstantial" which is mentioned in the sentence after blank 3.
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