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What is the author's likely strategy in connecting science to "common sense" (lines 10, 14, 15)?


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Okay Ap england people we've got another passage here from

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a zoology book in eighteen eighty A little bit interesting

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They're asking what's the author's likely strategy and connecting science

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to common sense All right then we just skim right

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up to ten here Rift have signs that shot up

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from the common sense All right got that fourteen common

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sense is science exactly into bars and fulfills the ideal

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of common sense That is these facts as they are

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or at any rate without distortion Blood black Okay so

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let's think about this The author says that scientific research

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is different in kind Right there he says it from

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the way people deal with the communist purposes of everyday

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existence He's starting his book by demystifying signs for people

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who may be intimidated or even blinded by the subject

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Well the other choices could be accurate statements but they're

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not strategic to the author's intent Here While scientific observation

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is the pay attending upon our senses the two senses

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being connected here are not the same giver to see

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That would be weird The author is trying to relate

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science to what while the common reader but not actual

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scientists So get rid of a The author doesn't want

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to bring science down to the level of the commoners

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experience Get rid of e Rather he tells us that

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science is common sense at its best that makes sense

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So get rid of d Presumably that whole common sense

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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

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the answer is b to show that science is an

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extension of everyday reasoning It's cool It's part of life

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Love it Live it Science The shmoop out of it

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