Ryle's University Seeker thought experiment is intended to show that minds, like universities, are organized collections of physical things.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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When was the first Ph.D. in philosophy awarded to a black woman?

A) 1865 B) 1895 C) 1935 D) 1965

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Suppose a ninety-year-old man is dying of cancer and is in excruciating pain that no medicine can relieve. He asks to be given a lethal injection. According to the doctrine of double effect, giving the injection is not morally permissible.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Since 1950, almost every top publishing house in the United States has been issuing books that its editors know to be occult garbage. Why? The answer is obvious. Like worthless diet books, they make lots of money. (Martin Gardner, The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher)This passage is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.

A. nonargument; explanation B. nonargument; report C. argument; conclusion: Like worthless diet books, they make lots of money D. argument; conclusion: Since 1950, almost every top publishing house in the United States has been issuing books that its editors know to be occult garbage

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Plato's dualistic view of reality, particularly about the immortality of the soul and the effects of decisions made in this life on posthumous rewards and punishments, became common knowledge during the Hellenistic era and, in turn, had a profound effect on

A. Western religion. B. Islamic traditions. C. the manner in which sacrifices would be carried out under Mosaic Law. D. God.

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