For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Many philosophers are known for a single utterance, an (i) saying that long outlives them. There is often (ii) in this phenomenon. While most undergraduate philosophy students can quote the 18th Century philosopher David Hume as saying “Reason is the slave of the passions,“ David Hume himself actually consigned this?apothegm?to themarginalia?of his text. In all likelihood, he had (iii) he had ever written any such thing.

Blank (i)

unfocused

epigrammatic

obscure

Blank (ii)

subtle wisdom

great irony

wide renown

Blank (iii)

soon forgotten

readily denied

inadvertently conceded

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