mohnish104 wrote:
Oh Man!!! How do i develop the IQ to even understand such questions. I have a fair bit of understanding of the English language (to support that claim, I would like to quote that I scored a 6.0 in my AWA ). I am unable to understand the level of thinking that questions such as these demand. Let alone answer, I could not even entirely make out what the passage meant to say. Help me out somebody please. I have scored a miserly 570 with V 22.
Questions like these are actually difficult. Once you spot such type of questions try to break down the argument into small pieces and then link them. You simply cannot read these type of questions without pausing and making sense of what's being said.
Science, because people engage in it, is a socially embedded activity -- Science is a activity that involves social engagement
It progresses by hunch, vision, and intuition -- pretty much clear
Much of its change through time does not record a closer approach to absolute truth, but the alternation of the cultural contexts that influence it so strongly. -- It is influenced more by cultural contexts than absolute truth.
Facts are not pure and unsullied bits of information— culture influences what we see and how we see it. -- facts are also influenced by culture influences
Theories, moreover, are not inexorable inductions from facts. --Theories are not derived directly from facts
The most creative theories are often imaginative visions imposed upon facts; the source of imagination is also strongly cultural.-- As most creative theories involve imagination and source of imagination is also cultural, so culture influences creative theories also.
If you had broken the sentence down, you would pretty much get the crux of the argument about how culture influences everything and you would have been able to pick the correct answer choice.
Hope this helps.
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