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Q3107423
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The idea that we might one day be able to construct some
artefact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds
is not a new one. It has featured in entertaining and frightening
fictions since Mary Shelley first conceived of Frankenstein’s
monster.
In the classic science fiction of the early to mid-twentieth
century, this idea was generally cashed out in terms of
‘mechanical men’ or robots – from the Czech word robata, which
translates roughly as the feudal term corvée, a term which refers
to the unpaid labour provided to one’s liege lord.
In more modern fiction, the idea of a mechanical mind has
given way to the now commonplace notion of a computational
artificial intelligence. The possibility of actually developing
artificial intelligence, however, is not just a question of
sufficiently advanced technology. It is rather a philosophical
question.
Matt Carter. Minds and Computers: an introduction to the philosophy of artficial intelligence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007 (adapted).
About the preceding text, judge the following item.
The word “It”, in the beginning of the second sentence of the text, refers to “some artifact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds”.
The word “It”, in the beginning of the second sentence of the text, refers to “some artifact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds”.
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Q3107422
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In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the text, Elon Musk is someone who is afraid of robots, even though he is one of the leaders of technological innovation.
According to the text, Elon Musk is someone who is afraid of robots, even though he is one of the leaders of technological innovation.
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Q3107421
Inglês
Texto associado
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
The last paragraph of the text states that Elon Musk was thinking of Mary Shelley when he declared scientists didn’t realize the ramifications of what they were doing.
The last paragraph of the text states that Elon Musk was thinking of Mary Shelley when he declared scientists didn’t realize the ramifications of what they were doing.
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Q3107419
Inglês
Texto associado
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the author of the text, Shelley’s novel should be mentioned in debates over AI because it proves things can go very wrong with new technologies.
According to the author of the text, Shelley’s novel should be mentioned in debates over AI because it proves things can go very wrong with new technologies.
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Q3107418
Inglês
Texto associado
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
In the last sentence of the first paragraph, “awry” is used to indicate that Victor Frankenstein’s plan went well, as his creature was similar to a human being.
In the last sentence of the first paragraph, “awry” is used to indicate that Victor Frankenstein’s plan went well, as his creature was similar to a human being.
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Q3107417
Inglês
Texto associado
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the text, at the end of Mary Shelley’s novel, Doctor Frankenstein kills the monster he created.
According to the text, at the end of Mary Shelley’s novel, Doctor Frankenstein kills the monster he created.
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Q3107416
Inglês
Texto associado
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a
strange little novel that would eventually make her
world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is
the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an
unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the
secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to
engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to
him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry,
Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to
the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant
since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and
entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of
interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the
heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it
often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific
overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we
are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s
tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might
ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein
complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots
who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people
who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological
innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story
in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai
in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their
work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what
they’re doing.”
Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI.
In: Big Think. Internet: (adapted)
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
In the second sentence of the first paragraph, the excerpt “an ambition to penetrate the secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth” can be understood as an explanation for the “unrelenting ‘thirst of knowledge’” that drove Victor Frankenstein.
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Q3107204
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Leia o resumo de uma pesquisa que, em 2021, já alertava para
questões climáticas e fatores a elas relacionados.
Politics of attributing extreme events to climate change
Climate change shapes weather events. However, describing it as the cause of disasters can be misleading, since disasters are caused by pre-existing fragilities and inequalities on the ground. Attribution is not neutral. Hence, analytic frames that attribute disaster to climate can divert attention from place-based vulnerabilities and their sociopolitical causes. While politicians may blame climate change, the public may hold the government accountable for inadequate investments in flood or drought prevention. To be strategic and moral, framing choices must therefore be sensitive to context and to how the values implicit within analytic frames about the causes of disasters shape policy responses. Such sensitivity requires multicausal analysis of weather-linked disasters to reduce the damages. Through examples from around the world, especially Brazil, we discuss how and why climate-centric disaster framing can erase from view—and, thus, from policy agendas—the very socioeconomic and political factors that centrally cause vulnerability and suffering in weather extremes.
(Adaptado de https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.750. Acesso em 15/05/2024.)
Qual alternativa expressa corretamente os argumentos dos autores do texto?
Politics of attributing extreme events to climate change
Climate change shapes weather events. However, describing it as the cause of disasters can be misleading, since disasters are caused by pre-existing fragilities and inequalities on the ground. Attribution is not neutral. Hence, analytic frames that attribute disaster to climate can divert attention from place-based vulnerabilities and their sociopolitical causes. While politicians may blame climate change, the public may hold the government accountable for inadequate investments in flood or drought prevention. To be strategic and moral, framing choices must therefore be sensitive to context and to how the values implicit within analytic frames about the causes of disasters shape policy responses. Such sensitivity requires multicausal analysis of weather-linked disasters to reduce the damages. Through examples from around the world, especially Brazil, we discuss how and why climate-centric disaster framing can erase from view—and, thus, from policy agendas—the very socioeconomic and political factors that centrally cause vulnerability and suffering in weather extremes.
(Adaptado de https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.750. Acesso em 15/05/2024.)
Qual alternativa expressa corretamente os argumentos dos autores do texto?
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O post a seguir foi retirado da rede social de ALOK, artista cujos
trabalhos abordam questões de gênero e identidade.
No post, a argumentação é articulada a partir dos diferentes sentidos das palavras
No post, a argumentação é articulada a partir dos diferentes sentidos das palavras
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Texto associado
Texto 1
The fact that so few African Americans write science fiction is
perplexing since they, in a very real sense, inhabit a sci-fi nightmare
in which unseen but no less palpable acts of intolerance frustrate
their movement; official histories undo what has been done;
and technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies.
Moreover, the sublegitimate status of science fiction in literature
mirrors the subaltern position to which blacks have been relegated
throughout American history. The notion of Afrofuturism gives
rise to a troubling antinomy: can a community whose past has
been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have been
consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine
possible futures?
(Adaptado de DERY, M. Black to the future: interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate,
and Tricia Rose. In: ___. (Ed.) The Discourse of cyberculture. Durham; London: Duke
University Press, p. 179-222, 1994.)
Texto 2
“Parable of the Talents” (Octavia E. Butler)
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.”
(BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. New York, Durham and London: Open Road, 1998.)
O texto 2 toca em um aspecto central do afrofuturismo e remete ao tema do questionamento do texto 1. Assim, pode-se dizer que o poema reconhece que
“Parable of the Talents” (Octavia E. Butler)
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.”
(BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. New York, Durham and London: Open Road, 1998.)
O texto 2 toca em um aspecto central do afrofuturismo e remete ao tema do questionamento do texto 1. Assim, pode-se dizer que o poema reconhece que
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Q3107201
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Texto associado
Texto 1
The fact that so few African Americans write science fiction is
perplexing since they, in a very real sense, inhabit a sci-fi nightmare
in which unseen but no less palpable acts of intolerance frustrate
their movement; official histories undo what has been done;
and technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies.
Moreover, the sublegitimate status of science fiction in literature
mirrors the subaltern position to which blacks have been relegated
throughout American history. The notion of Afrofuturism gives
rise to a troubling antinomy: can a community whose past has
been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have been
consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine
possible futures?
(Adaptado de DERY, M. Black to the future: interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate,
and Tricia Rose. In: ___. (Ed.) The Discourse of cyberculture. Durham; London: Duke
University Press, p. 179-222, 1994.)
De acordo com o texto 1, a escassez de autores afro-americanos
em obras de ficção científica representa um
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Use as informações do texto e da figura a seguir para a escolha
da alternativa correta.
Images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) are often not faithful representations of reality. The chart illustrates the level of disparity between a realistic representation of race and gender in various professions and the images generated by AI. The center line in this graph means equal representation. In one case, AI-generated images exclusively represented a certain profession as being held by white males, even though it is actually held by a range of men, women, white, and non-white people. In another case, although more than half of the people holding this position self-identified as white, AI represented it as being held solely by women who were primarily non-white.
Considerando as informações da figura, quais as duas profissões referidas no texto?
Images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) are often not faithful representations of reality. The chart illustrates the level of disparity between a realistic representation of race and gender in various professions and the images generated by AI. The center line in this graph means equal representation. In one case, AI-generated images exclusively represented a certain profession as being held by white males, even though it is actually held by a range of men, women, white, and non-white people. In another case, although more than half of the people holding this position self-identified as white, AI represented it as being held solely by women who were primarily non-white.
Considerando as informações da figura, quais as duas profissões referidas no texto?
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A imagem a seguir apresenta a transcrição de um diálogo em um vídeo publicado no Instagram.
No diálogo, a principal característica da reformulação da fala da médica é a inserção de
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Leia o texto a seguir.
Police under fire after threat to arrest
‘openly Jewish’ man near pro-Palestinian
protest
Scotland Yard criticised after suggesting Gideon Falter’s presence was ‘provocative’ and he was ‘antagonising’ protesters
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/19/. Acesso em 20/04/2024.)
Depreende-se, da leitura desse texto, que
Q4163404
Inglês
Texto associado
Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
Consider the following propositions for
rephrasing the sentence If Galois and his
predecessors had not been obsessed with
understanding the conditions under which
an equation can be solved by radicals,
humanity’s discovery of group theory
would have been greatly delayed (l. 48-53).
I - Had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed.
II - Humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals.
III- Had Galois and his predecessors been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity´s discovery of group theory would not have been greatly delayed.
If applied to the text, which one(s) would be correct and keep the original meaning?
I - Had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed.
II - Humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals.
III- Had Galois and his predecessors been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity´s discovery of group theory would not have been greatly delayed.
If applied to the text, which one(s) would be correct and keep the original meaning?
Q4163403
Inglês
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Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
Consider the following propositions for
rephrasing the segment It may not matter
directly for everyday life, but it surely
matters to humanity as a whole (l. 42-44).
I - It surely matters to humanity as a whole, however it may not matter directly for everyday life.
II - Though it may not matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
III- Despite it may matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the original meaning?
I - It surely matters to humanity as a whole, however it may not matter directly for everyday life.
II - Though it may not matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
III- Despite it may matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the original meaning?
Q4163402
Inglês
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Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
If the segment the universe (l. 12) were
replaced by universes, how many additional
changes would be necessary for the paragraph
from lines 12 to 17 to be grammatically
correct?
Q4163401
Inglês
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Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
Consider the statements below.
I - By using the phrase philosophical conundrum of the highest order (l. 07-08), the author expresses ethical issues related to the relationship between mathematics and physics.
II - By stating that Mathematics is not some disembodied version of the ultimate truth (l. 18-19), the author states mathematics is fallible just like the other social sciences.
III- By using the term unequivocal (l. 42), the author states that the importance of mathematics is not under question regardless of whether people agree on its importance.
Which ones are correct according to the text?
I - By using the phrase philosophical conundrum of the highest order (l. 07-08), the author expresses ethical issues related to the relationship between mathematics and physics.
II - By stating that Mathematics is not some disembodied version of the ultimate truth (l. 18-19), the author states mathematics is fallible just like the other social sciences.
III- By using the term unequivocal (l. 42), the author states that the importance of mathematics is not under question regardless of whether people agree on its importance.
Which ones are correct according to the text?
Q4163399
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Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
Mark the statements below T (true) or F (false), according to the text.
( ) Mathematics is not an area detached from human experience. Nevertheless, the text fails to provide practical examples of how it contributes to improve aspects of our daily life.
( ) The word could (l. 62) may be replaced by must, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
( ) Mathematics unequivocally relates to social processes, history, logic, and philosophy.
( ) The segment Research on deep mathematical issues should not be rejected or besmirched (l. 67-68) may be rephrased as One should not reject or besmirch research on deep mathematical issues, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
The correct sequence of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is
( ) Mathematics is not an area detached from human experience. Nevertheless, the text fails to provide practical examples of how it contributes to improve aspects of our daily life.
( ) The word could (l. 62) may be replaced by must, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
( ) Mathematics unequivocally relates to social processes, history, logic, and philosophy.
( ) The segment Research on deep mathematical issues should not be rejected or besmirched (l. 67-68) may be rephrased as One should not reject or besmirch research on deep mathematical issues, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
The correct sequence of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is
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Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
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