Paragraph Completion - Western and Eastern Thought
CAT 2008 Slot 1 · VARC · Medium · Reading Comprehension
Given the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the question of what is 'Western' and what is 'Eastern' (or 'Indian') is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more dialectical terms. The diagnosis of a thought as 'purely Western' or 'purely Indian' can be very illusory. [_____]
- A.
Thoughts are not the kind of things that can be easily categorized.
- B.
Though 'occidentalism' and 'orientalism' as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.
- C.
'East is East and West is West' has been a discredited notion for a long time now.
- D.
Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable.
- E.
The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which 'purity' happens easily.
E
Explanation
Option (5) directly follows up on the phrase 'purely Western or purely Indian can be very illusory'.
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