"Alcohol abuser means someone who consumes on average four or more alcoholic drinks a day." This is an example of a ________.
A. lexical definition
B. stipulative definition
C. precising definition
D. persuasive definition
Answer: C
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a) The great world religions cannot serve the needs of contemporary humans. b) One function of mythology was to help the individual fit into the community. c) The creative hero can consciously control the creation of a new mythology. d) In his life-form the individual is only a fraction of the total image of man.
This group, who warred with the Shang dynasty, proclaimed that one Supreme God controlled the destinies of all humankind
a. the Ming b. the Zhou c. the Han d. the Jin
An ethic based on the fundamental value that relationships should be preserved and maintained is a _____ ethic
a. socialist b. retributive c. compensatory d. communitarian
Feminist philosophers
a. share the same theory of knowledge. b. rely on the work of previous philosophers like Plato and Descartes. c. insist that an adequate theory of knowledge must take into account the relation between the knowing subject and the known object. d. agree that our knowledge must be free of political influence.