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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Knowledge

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on knowledge. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on knowledge.

  • The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

    Socrates

  • Knowledge is power.

    Francis Bacon

  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

    Albert Einstein

  • He who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

    Ecclesiastes

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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