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ACT Aspire Reading: Defining the Phrase "Horse Ideas" in Context 0 Views


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What does the author mean by the phrase "horse ideas"?


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All right spyros More on the human brain again Six

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of ten here What does the author mean by the

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phrase horse ideas So let's think about nope He's not

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talking about mr ads for since well the horse ideas

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the author refers to are all the concepts he associates

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with the word horse The passage isn't really about horses

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at all Rather the author uses the word horse as

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an example He could have chosen any word so we

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can eliminate all the answer choices that refer to horses

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civically The answer is b different concepts associated with forces

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Yeah that's it And know they can't talk for real

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