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AP English Language and Composition 7.6 Passage Drill. The chief purpose of the "historical inquiry" in paragraphs 4-7 is most likely to what?
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okay moving on the chief purpose of the historical
- 00:34
inquiry in paragraphs four through seven beginning line 26 is most likely to what?
- 00:40
and here the potential answers..
- 00:44
all right, well the great Henry Ford famously grumbled history is bunk in other words [Framed picture of Henry Ford]
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the past doesn't have much bearing on the present while the author begs to
- 00:53
differ he states that scientific ratiocination a fancy way of saying
- 00:58
observation and reasoning began as blind intellectual instinct or simple [A statue with vague facial features]
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observation and eventually came to be viewed as one continuous series of
- 01:09
causes and effects the author that fashionable fellow with killer side burns [A cigarette and a man on fire running away]
- 01:14
was a big proponent of Charles Darwin serious evolution but that doesn't mean [Man with Charles Darwin's head wearing a giant finger]
- 01:19
he's basing the theory of evolution on how science has evolved which means A
- 01:23
can't be the one, option C is referenced in the article in fact it says that
- 01:27
human instinct is the root of historical inquiry but it's just that the root the [Lots of tree roots on a floor]
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start, the earliest stages where it all begins not the whole shebang, C is
- 01:37
out of here. Once called natural history the research of organisms habits then
- 01:42
came to be known as natural philosophy and has further progressed to merge with
- 01:46
what we call physical science think of those classes that give us the shivers [girl shivering in class]
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just hearing the name like you know biophysics and biochemistry, well these
- 01:56
advanced sciences however been developed in more recent years so the terms [students picking up jars in a laboratory]
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physical science and natural history didn't have exactly the same meaning
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they do today although, Ford is still Ford.
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Alright well E sounds pretty good but the author's point regarding historical
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inquiry is not about the series of causes and effects that is phenomena of [A hedgehog on a woods' floor]
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nature so we'll nicks E and then there's B this is the last level of our video
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game that is historical inquiry of the phenomena of nature again this is just [A mario videogame mushroom]
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one piece one part of the bigger picture so B is a no-go and that just leaves D as
- 02:29
the answer in paragraph five our fabulously sideburn friend says it is
- 02:34
only when the mind passes beyond this condition that it begins to evolve
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science so the knowledge of science that we know and love today is a result of [woman using a pipette in a lab]
- 02:42
progressing from that blind intellectual instinct the viewing the phenomena of
- 02:46
nature as what it is one continuous series of causes and effects we'll give old
- 02:52
Henry Ford a pass on that whole history is bummed thing, after all he did also say
- 02:56
failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently [Henry Ford wearing a pink bow tie and purple shades]
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