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CAT Exam 2025 Slot 2 Paper

Section: VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

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Question : 13 of 68

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DIRECTIONS for the question 13: The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1,2,3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.
Paragraph: ____ (1) ____ . Denneny focused on taste rather than judgment in order to highlight what he believed was a crucial but neglected historical change. ____ (2) ____ . Over the course of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, across Western Europe, the word taste took on a new extension of meaning, no longer referring specifically to gustatory sensation and the delights of the palate but becoming, for a time, one of the central categories for aesthetic-and ethical-thinking.
____ (3) ____ . Tracing the history of taste in Spanish, French, and British aesthetic theory, as Denneny did, also provides a means to recover the compelling and relevant writing of a set of thinkers who have been largely neglected by professional philosophy. ____ (4) ____ .
Sentence: While taste is related to judgment, with thinkers at the time often writing, for example, about "judgments of taste" or using the two terms interchangeably, taste retains a vital link to pleasure, embodiment, and personal specificity that is too often elided in post-Kantian ideas about judgment-a link that Arendt herself was working to restore.

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