So Greg’s strategy here is that the 1st blank should have the meaning opposite from “figurative” or the synonym of “realistic”. However, because of the word “seemingly” in front of the blank, I thought that the answer would be an opposite of “precise”.
How should I interpret “seemingly” here? I thought if you say something is “seemingly (a)”, you are implying that it is not (a).
So we got blank(i) than we got more precise ----> So the question here is more precise than what? Suppose, If we put more precise in the middle and look to our left we got blank so, we got no choice to look to the right —> figurative language of fiction . Hence, our overall all question becomes: blank (i) more precise than figurative language of fiction . Still our analysis is incomplete we have to look before the blank (i) to get that Although ----> which sets up the contrast with figurative language . Now, we know that the Blank(i) will be the opposite of idea figurative language of fiction and we got another clue in precise to look for the most apt choices (because Literal and Subjective) both fits blank(i) but precise helps us seal the deal with literal.
Thank you for your comment. I do understand the logic of how the word ‘although’ works in this problem, but still, is it okay to ignore “seemingly”?
Maybe the “seemingly” is there to show contrast with “inherently”, but I still think that if it is the scientists claiming that their language is more precise, it makes more sense if “seemingly” is absent. Am I making sense to you here?
I think the question is saying that : while language of science(literal) looks(seemingly) more precise than language of fiction(symbolic) but at the end it doesn’t even matter because like all other languages it is suggestive at its fundamental level.
I’m still not 100% clear why word “seemingly” is used here, but your comment was very helpful. Thank you !!
