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Unit 9

16. According to the third paragraph, speech perception -

(1) is a simple, unconscious process (2) depends only on inborn mechanisms (3) involves segmentation of continuous wave streams (4) is independent of prior experience

17. A good title for the text would be -

(1) Unconscious Processing (2) Freud's Dilemma

(3) The Physiological Basis for Speech Perception (4) The Psychological Basis for Speech Perception

Text II (Questions 18-22)

Though strongly colored by Greek and Neo-Platonic influences, Christianity belongs to the Hebraist rather than to the Hellenistic side of man's nature because Christianity bases itself above all on faith and sets the man of faith above the man of reason. Again and again, at the beginning of Christianity, St. Paul tells us that the faith he 5 preaches is foolishness to the Greeks, for they demand “wisdom” - which of course to the Greeks meant rational philosophy and not religious faith. But the historical fact that Christianity arose in a world which already knew about reason through the Greeks distinguishes Christian faith from the Hebraic faith of the Old Testament. Ancient biblical man knew the uncertainties and hesitations of faith as a 10 matter of personal experience, but he did not yet know the full conflict of faith with reason because reason itself did not come into historical existence until later, with the Greeks. Christian faith is therefore more intense than that of the Old Testament, and at the same time paradoxical: it is not only faith beyond reason but, if need be, against reason. 15 This problem of the relation between faith and reason, stated by St. Paul, is not only the root problem for centuries of Christian philosophers to come, it is the root itself of later Christian civilization.

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