After the investigations and（）that are both necessary and inevitable after a calamity such as the recently ended crisis, it may turn out that authorities could have handled the problem in a less（）way.

A. ennobling
B. intriguing
C. beneficial
D. nebulous
E. tangential

A. The seamlessness of reality complicates the notion of linguistic categories, such that those categories must be questioned.
B. The experience of reality largely varies from that of the experience of language, weakening the reliability of both experiences.
C. Ideas invariably precede, in their existence and meaning, the language that subsequently articulates them.
D. Language, although capable of developing categories, can never articulate more than particular instances.
E. The meaning of a word is not fixed historically, and may evolve over time due to a variety of factors.