Passage

Most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth. Even the most truthful people probably tell a good many more lies that might be regarded as semantic lies; their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate.
QUESTION

CSAT

Easy

Comprehension

Prelims 2021

The idea which the first part of the passage mention is

Select an option to attempt

Explanation

Option (A) is correct - The question is asking for ideas from the first part of the passage. But the first part is missing, and the given passage is a continuation of the first part.

Hence, we need to imply the idea. From the passage, we can imply that the first part is discussing the idea of agreement in telling lies while in the second part they disagree in truth in every situation.

Hence option A is correct.

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