Scientific reasoning can be thought of as most basically _______

A. a system of background knowledge
B. observations organized by common sense
C. descriptive information about the world
D. deduction that seeks to arrive at the truth


A

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"Elizabeth II is the reigning queen of England." According to the ________, this statement is an explanation and not an argument.

A. past-event test B. principle of charity test C. author's intent test D. common-knowledge test

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In the context of Jainism, the process of holy death involves:

A) ?burning oneself to death in a temple ceremonial fire. B) ?voluntarily starving oneself to death. C) ?deliberately hanging oneself to death. D) ?beating oneself to death.

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In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar.The company that Marina owns allows the secretarial staff to accumulate one vacation day per month, but managers at the company accumulate 1.5 days per month.

What will be an ideal response?

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