Describe the "Productivity" criterion as it is applied to the evaluating comparative reasoning
Give an original example of two contrasting comparisons for the same object; first give one that is more productive and then supply one that is less productive.
What will be an ideal response
Productivity is the capacity of a comparison to bring to mind unexpected new ideas that go beyond the points of comparison initially mentioned. One possible pair of examples: My first day of boarding school was like a trip to a foreign country-lots of new and unfamiliar things to try to understand, including the school's whole set of rules of conduct and its unique student culture. My first day at boarding school was a trip to the mall-lots of new things to see.
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Which statement best characterizes John Hick’s position?
a. A good God would make our life completely free of pain. b. Even an all-powerful God could not make free persons into ready-made, perfected moral agents. c. The reason why God allows suffering in this life is to punish us when we have gone astray. d. The problem of evil is solved by recognizing that good and evil is simply a matter of personal, subjective, opinion.
The puritanical Islamic movement that took control of Afghanistan in 1996 is called the
A. Taliban. B. Wahhabi. C. Zaidi. D. Ibadi.
Nozick and Rawls approach individual rights in very different ways
What will be an ideal response?
Another name for a posteriori knowledge is
a. innate ideas. b. synthetic a priori knowledge. c. truths of reason. d. empirical knowledge.