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Distressed by his own personal tragedies, the Roman philosopher Cicero once asked himself whether a wise person should try to achieve the Stoic ideal of complete emotionlessness. Cicero reasoned that, however desirable the goal may be, a wise person could never attain it, since emotions are not simply irrational urges. They are, rather, a product of one’s estimate of the goodness and badness of the events, people, and actions one witnesses.
Which of the following is an assumption required by Cicero’s reasoning?
Wise people inevitably evaluate at least some of the things they observe.
Irrationality makes evaluation of what one observes impossible.
Wisdom precludes attempting to attain what one cannot.
If evaluations are based only on reason, then they are inaccurate.
A wise person will not evaluate what cannot be directly observed.
原因：情感不是简单的无理性的欲望。情感是一个人对事件、人、见证的行为的好或坏的评估得出的产物。
结果：一个智慧的人不能够达到complete emotionlessness
这里有两个可能的assumption，
1 情感如果是简单无理性的欲望就可以让一个智慧的人达到complete emotionlessness；
2 一个智慧的人，就肯定会对事件、人、见证的行为的好或坏进行评估，从而产生出emotion。 对应A选项：智慧的人无可避免地会评估他们观察到的事物。-取非：智慧的人不会评估他们观察到的事物（none of the things they observe.）既然不会去评估，那就不会involve到emotions，那emotionlessness就是可以达成的，造成削弱～
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