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In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with

(A) identifying the differences between science and pseudo-science as they relate to skepticism
(B) stressing the importance of employing the scientific method to assuage skeptics
(C) proposing a new scientific approach which answers the objections presented by skepticism
(D) offering a model of skepticism that is both useful to science and avoids the pitfalls of relativism
(E) explaining the difference between the assumptions made by relativists and those made by skeptics

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According to the passage, skepticism becomes problematic when it does which of the following

(A) It becomes overly demanding by criticizing the possible justifications for a prediction about the future.
(B) It requires too much by suggesting that thinkers not rely on an infinite regress of justification.
(C) It suggests, despite certain epistemological arguments that we abandon the dream of conclusive justification.
(D) It argues that the truth is to be had through a lucky guess, rather than through reason and deduction.
(E) It suggests that we adopt a universal suspension of belief, rather than being selective in our incredulity.

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Which of the following statements best illustrates the main point of the last paragraph of the passage

(A) Einstein was not a thoroughgoing realist, in particular where the interpretation of quantum mechanics was concerned.
(B) When Newton predicted that gravity affects all objects equally, his theory was not improved by experimental trials.
(C) Those impressed by Hume’s argument often conclude that experience plays only a psychological or rhetorical role.
(D) Pasteur’s search for a means of bacterial sterilization was assisted greatly by the process of experiment.
(E) Galileo’s astronomy theory itself was less reliable than the predictions he drew from it.