Philo says, "But can you think, Cleanthes, that your usual philosophy has been preserved in so wide a step as you have taken, when you compared to the universe, houses, ships, furniture, machines, and, from their similarity in some circumstances, inferred a similarity in their ________?"
A) effects
B) causes
C) reasons
D) deductions

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In this passage, Philo is questioning Cleanthes' inference that because houses, ships, furniture, and machines resemble the universe in some ways, they must share a similarity in their causes. Therefore, the best choice is B, causes.

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