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QUESTION
Which phrase best signals that a statement is an implication rather than a direct quote: "for example" or "therefore"?
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ANSWER
"Therefore". The phrase 'therefore' indicates a deductive conclusion drawn from preceding statements in the passage.
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Read the passage and answer the question that follows.When people speak of "free speech," they often imagine a simple absence of restraint: one may say what one wishes without interference. This picture encourages the belief that speech is a natural capacity that flourishes automatically once censorship is removed. But speech is not merely sound produced by an individual; it is an activity that depends on shared practices of listening, recognition, and response.A person can be formally permitted to speak and still be effectively unheard. This is not only a matter of volume or technology. It can occur when norms of credibility distribute attention unevenly, so that some speakers must provide extraordinary evidence to be treated as reasonable while others are granted trust by default. In such cases, the "marketplace" metaphor—where ideas compete on equal terms—describes an aspiration more than a reality.To acknowledge this is not to deny that legal protections against punishment are important. It is to note that the value of those protections is limited by the social conditions that make speech intelligible and consequential. Speech that cannot gain uptake is not exactly silenced, but it is rendered politically inert.If we treat free speech as requiring more than noninterference, then we also see why debates about speech can become confused. Participants talk past one another: some defend a right against suppression, while others point to patterns of disregard that make the right hollow for certain speakers.If the author's argument is correct, which of the following would most likely follow?