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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.

PASSAGE

Although John Wisdom's writings in philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a ____(1)____ originality. Despite the ____(2)____ and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom ____(3)____. He is a unique kind of genius in philosophy. This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom's repeated attempts to ____(4)____ the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is ____(5)____ interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel ____(6)____ to utter such strange sentences ____(e.g. "Time is unreal", There are no material things", etc)____. According to Wisdom, such sentences are both false ____(and perhaps meaningless)____ and yet ____(7)____. Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the "therapeutic" conception of philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where he emphasizes the analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress ____(8)____ them with other kinds of problems. The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller ____(9)____ with Wisdom's thought is referred to his famous article "Gods in Philosophy and Psycho-analysis". Other Minds is Wisdom's most ____(10)____ discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.