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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by the colon spicing up sentences

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for years Yeah yeah not that kind of calling Try

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and keep that out of senses okay to the following

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passage for the ninety seventh time and we're just skimming

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because just too painful to really focus on this and

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we can focus anymore So we're making noise the background

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skimming it There we go And here's our question what

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best characterizes the rhetorical function in relation to the human

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mind Nature is boundless And though nowhere inaccessible she is

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everywhere unfathomable And here is essential answers Bretter didn't know

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right Okay well see that little thing right before the

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quote given there that's not just any old punctuation Mark

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it's a colon and a colon serves a particular purpose

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It's used to prove explained to find list or describe

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whatever precedes it Take your grocery list for example After

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grocery list comes the colon whatever comes next lists or

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describes what makes up that grocery list so let's look

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at the answer choices Well one of these things is

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not like the others One thing that colin never does

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provide contrast so we can say goodbye to see let's

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Check out the first half of the sentence But the

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philosopher need not despair at the limitation of his field

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of labor The philosopher a k a scientist doesn't need

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to worry about running out of things to investigate the

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world's a pretty big place No ifs ands or butts

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here The explanation after the colon never doubts the limitless

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possibilities of nature the philosopher shouldn't worry As long as

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there are people in animals and space and stuff there'll

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be something to investigate the wooden cross out date What

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about eh Well this statement only voices an idea no

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specific example of used to support this belief which means

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a cz out And then there were two Does the

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sentence provide proof Well the author's rational isn't exactly giving

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us any exhibits a b or c there's no real

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proof here Well this means the answer is he The

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sense offers a reason as in scientists will always have

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something to study because nature is super confusing Sounds about

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right to us We can start with exploring the mystery

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