首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Ironically, the intellectual tools currently being used by the political right to such harmful effect originated on the academic
Ironically, the intellectual tools currently being used by the political right to such harmful effect originated on the academic
admin
2020-03-30
47
问题
Ironically, the intellectual tools currently being used by the political right to such harmful effect originated on the academic left. In the 1960s and 1970s a philosophical movement called postmodernism developed among humanities professors【C1】______being deposed by science, which they regarded as right-leaning. Postmodernism【C2】______ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is【C3】______and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer. Science is just one of many ways of knowing, they argued, neither more nor less【C4】______than others, like those of Aborigines, Native Americans or women.【C5】______, they defined science as the way of knowing among Western white men and a tool of cultural【C6】______. This argument【C7】______with many feminists and civil-rights activists and became widely adopted, leading to the "political correctness" justifiably【C8】______by Rush Limbaugh and the "mental masturbation" lampooned by Woody Allen.
Acceptance of this relativistic worldview【C9】______democracy and leads not to tolerance but to authoritarianism. John Locke, one of Jefferson’s "trinity of three greatest men," showed【C10】______almost three centuries ago. Locke watched the arguing factions of Protestantism, each claiming to be the one true religion, and asked: How do we know something to be true? What is the basis of knowledge? In 1689 he【C11】______what knowledge is and how it is grounded in observations of the physical world in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Any claim that fails this test is "but faith, or opinion, but not knowledge. " It was this idea—that the world is knowable and that objective, empirical knowledge is the most【C12】______basis for public policy that stood as Jefferson’s foundational argument for democracy.
By falsely【C13】______knowledge with opinion, postmodernists and antiscience conservatives alike collapse our thinking back to a pre-Enlightenment era, leaving no common basis for public policy. Public discourse is【C14】______to endless warring opinions, none seen as more valid than another. Policy is determined by the loudest voices, reducing us to a world in which might【C15】______right—the classic definition of authoritarianism.
【C4】
选项
A、variable
B、valid
C、valuable
D、various
答案
B
解析
四个选项的意思分别是:variable可变的,不定的;valid正确的,有效的;valuable重要的,有价值的;various不同的,多方面的。这句话的意思是,科学只是认识事物的众多方式中的种,并不比其他方式更有效。所以B选项是正确的答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/mhTO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
ManycountrieswillnotallowcigaretteadvertisingintheirnewspapersoronTVespeciallysincetheadvertisementsareusually
WearesorrytosaythatMaryisnottheverypersonwhocanbe______witheithermoneyorsecretinformation.
Anewstudysuggeststhatcontrarytomostsurveys,peopleareactuallymorestressedathomethanatwork.Researchersmeasured
Youareexposedtoobtrusiveadsthat______seeminglyfromnowhereevenwhenyouaredisconnectedfromtheNet,andyourperson
Asoneworkswithcolorinapracticalorexperimentalway,oneisimpressedbytwoapparentlyunrelatedfacts.Colorasseenis
Inrecentyears,therehasbeenasteadyassaultonsaltonfromthedoctors:saltisbadforyou—regardlessofyourhealth.Pol
Thebasicreasonfortheexistenceofmulti-nationalcompaniesisthecompetitiveadvantageofaglobalnetworkofproductionan
Thecurrentpolitical______ofourcountryisfavourableforforeigninvestments.
Thenewgovernment’staxraisepolicyactuallyledtotheresultthattheincomesfromtaxationactually______.
随机试题
国际银团贷款中的借款人可以包括()
甲、乙两公司于2003年6月15日签订了一份买卖合同,约定甲公司从乙公司购买100台电动缝纫机,货到一星期内付款。甲公司收到货物后,当即进行子调试,发现大部分机子都存在运行不畅的毛病,因缺乏经验,甲公司认为这是新机器的缘故,未向乙公司反映,并于6月21日交
已知KbΘ(NH3.H2O)=1.8×10-5,0.1mol.L-1的NH3.H2O溶液的pH为:
当对管道的质量证明书数据有异议时,正确的是()。
某公司有38名男员工、27名女员工。现要参加集团组织的羽毛球比赛,如采取自由报名的形式,至少有多少名员工报名才能保证一定能从报名者中选出男、女选手各8名参赛?
WhenIdecidedtoquitmyfulltimeemploymentitneveroccurredtomethatImightbecomeapartofanewinternationaltrend.
对于任意二个随机变量X和Y,与命题“X和Y不相关”不等价的是().
于QQ系统的描述中,正确的是()。
MarieCuriewasthefirstfemaleprofessoratSevres,acollegeforgirlswhowantedtoteachhighereducation.Thesetwenty-yea
A、Aweakheart.B、Askindisease.C、Bronchitis.D、Kidneytrouble.CWhatisthemanmostprobablysufferingfrom?
最新回复
(
0
)