高三童鞋辛苦啦。
56. Of the three letters, which is in response to which?
A. A---B B. C---B C. C---A D. B----C
57. Chances for Duke University to change its admission decision in history were_______. A. none B. big C. slim D. hard to tell
58. What makes it impossible for the applicant to resubmit an application next year? A. Tying the letter to an owl and send it to UCAS B. Printing out grade sheet
C. Applying for the Liberal Arts course as an option D. Improving his scores
59. What can we infer form the letter about college application? A. It is disappointing for sure.
B. Rejection letters are better written than offers. C. It is no as fun as on imagines.
D. There could be extra work beyond normal procedure.
B
Do I exist?
Obviously!
Until Descartes came along in the seventeenth century, everyone assumed that we exited. Obviously. The fact seemed so mind-blowingly obvious that it wasn t really discussed. We could see ourselves in the mirror, we could feel pain and pleasure, we could think thoughts for ourselves and, more importantly, perhaps, all the world s main religions assumed that we do exist. So we exist.
No you don t it!
You don t exist. That s because it s impossible to show once and for all that you do. There s no proof. You might think you exist-that you are sitting at a table reading this book, for instance-but how could you show with 100 percent certainty that this is true? There s no experiment that could prove it. Although Descartes said just you could prove your own existence by the fact that you are able to think, this isn t actually, according to the British philosopher A. J. Ayer. Just because we know that we are thinking, this doesn t mean that there is a “you” doing the thinking. It just shows that the thoughts are happening, not that anyone is having them. Thoughts exists, “You” don t.
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