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The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

    { 1 } - Philosophy is unnatural to us.
    { 2 } - Socrates lived near water.
    { 3 } - All reality is material.
    { 4 } - One learns what philosophy is by doing it.
    { 5 } - Philosophy is dangerous.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

On the contrary, philosophy is more natural to us than swimming is. See p. 1.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

    { 1 } - Philosophy is unnatural to us.
    { 2 } - Socrates lived near water.
    { 3 } - All reality is material.
    { 4 } - One learns what philosophy is by doing it.
    { 5 } - Philosophy is dangerous.

He did live near water, but that fact is irrelevant to the nature of philosophy.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

    { 1 } - Philosophy is unnatural to us.
    { 2 } - Socrates lived near water.
    { 3 } - All reality is material.
    { 4 } - One learns what philosophy is by doing it.
    { 5 } - Philosophy is dangerous.

The communication "all reality is material" proves that all reality is not material.

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4 is correct!

The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

    { 1 } - Philosophy is unnatural to us.
    { 2 } - Socrates lived near water.
    { 3 } - All reality is material.
    { 4 } - One learns what philosophy is by doing it.
    { 5 } - Philosophy is dangerous.

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5 is wrong. Please try again.

The comparison of philosophy to swimming is meant to bring out the point that:

    { 1 } - Philosophy is unnatural to us.
    { 2 } - Socrates lived near water.
    { 3 } - All reality is material.
    { 4 } - One learns what philosophy is by doing it.
    { 5 } - Philosophy is dangerous.

On the contrary, for a human not to do philosophy is dangerous.

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