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In the contemporary climate of academic specialization, the typical university lecturer of only two centuries ago, who was expected to (i) _________ views on subjects as diverse as geography, physics, and the fine arts, seems a veritable (ii) _________ , and we forget at our peril that it was precisely such breadth of learning that led to some of the great discoveries and even (iii) _________ shifts in the sciences, as when Darwin drew upon his knowledge of philosophy and economics to articulate his famous theory of evolution.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
| (A) propound | (D) astrophysicist | (G) hegemonic |
| (B) gainsay | (E) polymath | (H) paradigmatic |
| (C) demarcate | (F) autodidact | (I) minuscule |
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In the contemporary climate of academic specialization, the typical university lecturer of only two centuries ago, who was expected to (i) _________
Specialization is the clue. They usually debate on certain subjects
views on subjects as diverse as geography, physics, and the fine arts, seems a veritable (ii) _________ ,
comprehensive knowledge or polymath
and we forget at our peril that it was precisely such breadth of learning that led to some of the great discoveries and even (iii) _________ shifts in the sciences, as when Darwin drew upon his knowledge of philosophy and economics to articulate his famous theory of evolution.
and the polymath was what conducted us to paradigmatic shifts in the sciences or huge achievements
A,E, and H are the answers
Specialization is the clue. They usually debate on certain subjects
views on subjects as diverse as geography, physics, and the fine arts, seems a veritable (ii) _________ ,
comprehensive knowledge or polymath
and we forget at our peril that it was precisely such breadth of learning that led to some of the great discoveries and even (iii) _________ shifts in the sciences, as when Darwin drew upon his knowledge of philosophy and economics to articulate his famous theory of evolution.
and the polymath was what conducted us to paradigmatic shifts in the sciences or huge achievements
A,E, and H are the answers
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Why not autodidact?
