Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as
instructed.The passage contains TEN errors. Each
indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is
involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following
way:
The study of philosophies should make our own ideas flexible. We are
all of us apt to make certain general ideas for granted, and call them common
sense. We should learn that other people have held quite different ideas, but
that our own have started as very original guesses of philosophers.
A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will
ultimately be solved by science. I think this is true for a great many of the
questions in which philosophers still argue. For example, Plato thought that
when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and the other
from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now
know that the light comes from the sun,and is reflected into our eyes. We don’t
know in much detail how the changes in our eyes give to sensation. But there is
every, reason to think that as we learn more about the physiology of the
brain,we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about knowledge
are going to be pretty full cleared up. But if our descendants
know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there
would still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. While
exact our science, we cannot know it as we know the past. Philosophy may be
described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science
gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is
one reason that Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical
problems that interested in their contemporaries. ______