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When the passage moves from the seventh to the final paragraph (line 60), it also moves from


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Okay Ap england people Almost last one here in this

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passage when the passage moves from the seventh to the

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final paragraph Line sixty It also moves from what To

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what Until the last paragraph The author's talking about ideas

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which are always abstract because ideas don't exist in the

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material world Like a material girl they only exist in

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people's heads much like you know imagine shmoop the imaginary

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friend of the shmoop family It isn't until the last

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paragraph that he makes those abstractions concrete by giving a

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deliciously specific example You know the crayfish They're good with

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a lot of butter All right well the peace doesn't

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shift from analysis to argumentation so get rid of because

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the author is arguing for a point throughout So get

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rid of sea He starts by explaining a commonly held

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belief and then writes that anyone who looks into the

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matter attentively will soon perceive that there is no solid

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foundation for that belief Well that sounds pretty argumentative although

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the writer uses i in certain places neither personal Get

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rid of being nor anecdote to get rid of e

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because well it doesn't relate to his life specifically So

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the answer is d abstract discussion to a specific example

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That's the movement there

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