Clarifying What You Heard.
Confirming Your Understanding.
Clarifying What You Mean.
Clarifying a Misunderstanding.
Changing the Subject.
But is a coordinating conjunction. That's not the correct answer. (The) is not a coordinating conjunction. You use the acronym FANBOY for coordinating conjunctions.
F-for
A-and
N-Nor
B-but
O-or
Y-yet
so (the) is not a coordinating conjunction
I hope this helps :)
Caesar gave up the fight and died
I would say this is the point of view of humanists who do not believe in religion but believe that mankind is the principal thing in life and that everything we have ie all material possessions and all cultural aspects of our societies and technologies etc come from man not from gods.