The primary focus of Shinto worship is directed toward
A. a single, all-powerful God or goddess.
B. the spirits of nature and ancestors.
C. Mount Fuji and other sacred natural sites.
D. creating a positive flow of energy.
Answer: B
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"Conspiracy theorists suggest that 9/11 was an inside government job. The government secretly landed those planes, took off all the passengers, and then hid the planes. Then they took remote-controlled planes and flew those planes into the towers. But days before, they had managed to sneak in explosives into the towers, without anyone seeing, and then performed a controlled detonation on the buildings after the remote-controlled planes hit the towers. And, even though thousands of people would've had to have been involved in the conspiracy to pull this off, they all kept quiet and didn't object. Given the track record of the federal government, that sounds like a plausible scenario to me." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The fallacy of false alternatives B. The fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority C. The questionable cause fallacy D. The slippery-slope fallacy E. None of the answers are correct
Arguments by elimination are deductive.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
"Since Mr. Jackson is now editor-in-chief of the magazine and 99 percent of people with such responsibilities cannot also be production managers, he cannot also be production manager" is an example of
A) enumerative induction B) statistical syllogism C) causal argument D) analogy
The moral position that right and wrong can be understood in terms of their effect on something's functions is
a. a functionalist theory of morality b. a realist theory of morality c. an instrumental theory of morality d. a deontological theory of morality