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In the sixteenth century, the push for greater precision in measuring time was not, like more recently, motivated by complicated philosophical questions about the nature of matter and the universe, but the practical matters of navigation : sailors simply needed more highly accurate timepieces in order to compute their longitude form the positions of the stars. A. not, like more ...

KC wrote: In the sixteenth century, the push for greater precision in measuring time was not, like more recently, motivated by complicated philosophical questions about the nature of matter and the universe, but the practical matters of navigation : sailors simply needed more highly accurate timepieces in order to compute their longitude form the positions of the stars....

I will pick up C... I remember reading somewhere that 'like' is used when focus is on two nouns and 'as' when focus in on the action of two nouns.

E for me.

(E)

KC wrote: In the sixteenth century, the push for greater precision in measuring time was not, like more recently, motivated by complicated philosophical questions about the nature of matter and the universe, but the practical matters of navigation : sailors simply needed more highly accurate timepieces in order to compute their longitude form the positions of the stars....

E for me also

I'm always confused about the "true" definition of time. In physics, time is defined as the interval between two successive events. Now that definition doesn't work for me because before you define time you need to define "events" and that is not also the end of the problem; how do you define "succession" ? The conventional definition is "well understood" by Hawking and Einstein but I'm still ...

Am torn between (A) and (E). Will go for (A) (B): "Being" --> Avoid answer choices with "being" in it at all cost! (C): What does "they" refer to? Ambiguity (D): Akward sentence structure (E): Unsure about the "as has been the case more recently" And there actual answer is.....

E works for me.