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Question 15 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2022 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

We begin with the emergence of the philosophy of the social sciences as an arena of thought and as a set of social institutions. The two characterisations overlap but are not congruent. Academic disciplines are social institutions. . . . My view is that institutions are all…

In the first paragraph of the passage, what are the two “characterisations” that are seen as overlapping but not congruent?

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