CAT 2025 Slot 2 VARC Question 10

Multiple choice (+3 / −1) · Verbal Ability · Sentence Placement · Try it, then check the answer and solution below.

CAT 2025 Slot 2VARCVerbal Ability • Sentence PlacementHard
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.
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.
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) ____.
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Answer: C) Option 3

The sentence discusses the relationship between taste and judgment, emphasizing taste's link to pleasure and personal aspects, which contrasts with post-Kantian ideas. It fits best after the paragraph traces the history of taste, connecting it to the recovery of neglected thinkers and Arendt's work. Thus, the correct placement is after the historical context, in Option 3.
Correct Answer: Option C

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