Identify the main point or issue in the following passage, and decide whether the rest of the passage offers reasons for the main point (such as, whether the passage contains an argument), whether it illustrates (provides examples for) the main point, whether it explains the point, is irrelevant to the point, and so on."In the last two hundred years, the theoretical landscape of biology has changed drastically, however. Species and other taxa are not the result of divine creation, but the products of evolution. Taxa are not static, timeless classes of organisms, but evolving and temporary entities. The theoretical assumptions of Linnaean system have been replaced by those of Darwinism and the Modern Synthesis."-Mark Ereshefsky, "Species and the Linnaean Hierarchy," in Species, ed. by R.
A. Wilson
What will be an ideal response?
First sentence states main point; the remainder provides examples of (and thus evidence for) the main point.
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a. Tsaka'bec d. Mista'peo b. Mantu e. trickster c. shaman 1. Naskapi world soul 2. Naskapi individual human soul 3. Naskapi trickster 4. controls spirits/souls 5. figure admired for his canniness
What is the definition of 'sound'?
a.) When all the premises are true, then the conclusion has to be true b.) All the premises are true and the conclusion is true c.) An argument is strong and all the premises are true d.) An argument is valid and all the premises are true
Ryle’s view on mental processes is that
a. they do not exist. b. they are identical to certain kinds of behaviors or dispositions to behave. c. they are inner processes that accompany our outer, physical processes. d. they are private events that are unknowable to an outside observer.
The two parts of an argument are _____
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).