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Each question has a group of sentences marked A, B, C, and D. Arrange these to form a logical sequence.
A. We tend to see the similarity within a category as being more important, and the similarity between different categories as being less important, that either actually is.
B. Given a small amount of information about a person, we are ready to classify them as a member of a particular group, and then to infer all kinds of additional facts about them, as if all members of the group were the same in most respects.
C. Our tendency to classify and label everything can lead us into the error of seeing the world as made up of only those categories for which we have names.
D. Expecting too much of the descriptive power of languages is itself a serious cause of distorted thinking.
The sentences talk about classification and the errors in our ways of doing it. Reading the sentences, we see that CBA forms a coherent block.
C introduces the idea of us classifying things, and only in particular categories. B then builds up on it through an example of classifying a person based on limited information. And A finally tells the problem with that, which is that we underestimate the similarities between different groups.Â
D best serves as an introduction to this descriptive power of languages, of which classification is a subset of.Â
Making DCBA the most logical sequence.Â
Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.Â
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