Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical…
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Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. The moral will arise when, for the reasons we saw earlier, this negation has to be negated; the individual moral will understands that it is the existence of the universal will, which is therefore internal to it.
2. This constitutes a negation, because the individual will is understood not to be the existence of the universal will.
3. This says that in abstract right, as we have just seen, the individual will take its freedom (the universal will that has being in itself) to exist independent of (that is, in opposition to) itself and its particular contents.
4. Rather, the universal will is thought to exist outside any individual will, in the contracts that bind a number of property-owning wills together, and in the punishments that enforce breaches of those contracts.
- A.
1, 2, 3, 4
- B.
3, 2, 4, 1
- C.
3, 1, 2, 4
- D.
3, 4, 2, 1
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Correct answer: B
Concept: In a Para Jumble drawn from a longer passage, the sentence that opens the excerpt is the one whose pronouns or connectors do not depend on anything found in the OTHER given sentences, even if it carries a phrase that points further back into the source text the excerpt was drawn from. Every other given sentence is placed by tracing its referential and logical-connector words to an idea stated in one of the other given sentences.
Application: Sentence 3's phrases "This says that" and "as we have just seen" point back to material from before this four-sentence excerpt begins, not to anything in sentences 1, 2 or 4 -- so among the four given sentences it is the one that can open without waiting on any of the others. Sentence 2 opens with "This constitutes a negation", where "this" refers directly to the separation of individual and universal will just stated in sentence 3, so 2 follows 3. Sentence 4 opens with "Rather", a contrast connector that corrects the negation just named in sentence 2 by re-describing where the universal will actually exists (in contracts and punishments), so 4 follows 2. Sentence 1's clause "this negation has to be negated" explicitly needs the negation already named in sentence 2 (and refined in sentence 4) to be on the table, and it states the paragraph's conclusion (the moral will arising), so sentence 1 can only come last, after 3, 2 and 4. This gives the order 3, 2, 4, 1.
Cross-check: Reading the assembled paragraph end to end (3, 2, 4, 1) produces one continuous argument with no dangling pronoun or connector left unresolved among the four given sentences, confirming the sequence.