DIRECTIONS for question: Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.1. The real power of these technical means lay not in the techniques and technologies themselves but in the disposition of those who used them, in their unshakable confidence that there were in principle andldquo;no mysterious, incalculable forcesandrdquo; they could not calculate and control.2. Such a technical rationality had replaced the andldquo;magical meansandrdquo; premodern people had used to placate gods and spirits.dence that there were in principle andldquo;no mysterious, incalculable forcesandrdquo; they could not calculate and control.3. Having conquered everything else, the calculating machines of modernity are now coming for our books.4. When Max Weber suggested in 1917 that the world had been disenchanted, he meant that modernity was best understood by the expansion of andldquo;technical meansandrdquo; that controlled andldquo;all things through calculation.andrdquo;Correct answer is '3'. Can you explain this answer?

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Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
1. The real power of these technical means lay not in the techniques and technologies themselves but in the disposition of those who used them, in their unshakable confidence that there were in principle “no mysterious, incalculable forces” they could not calculate and control.
2. Such a technical rationality had replaced the “magical means” premodern people had used to placate gods and spirits.dence that there were in principle “no mysterious, incalculable forces” they could not calculate and control.
3. Having conquered everything else, the calculating machines of modernity are now coming for our books.
4. When Max Weber suggested in 1917 that the world had been disenchanted, he meant that modernity was best understood by the expansion of “technical means” that controlled “all things through calculation.”

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In this case, statements 1, 2 and 4 are connected. The correct order for these statements is: 4-1-2. These statements are generic statements and statement 3 does not fit the given context highlighted by these three statements.

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