Which of the following does not primarily depend upon comparative reasoning?
(a) Comparisons are like a fine set of carpentry tools-you have to know a tool's purpose, or else it will be useless to you.
(b) Just as there are myriad flowering plants in a well-tended garden, people cultivate an exceptional variety of ways to express comparative reasoning.
(c) Using comparative reasoning as the firm foundation for logically strong arguments is like trying to build a house out of straw in a swamp.
(d) "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all," said Hypatia of Alexandria more than fifteen hundred years ago.
d
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