The definition "'Phonograph' is a word derived from the Greek words phon, meaning 'sound' and graphein, meaning 'to write'" is an example of:
A) An etymological definition.
B) A precising definition.
C) An extensional definition.
D) A stipulative definition.
E) A definition by genus and difference.
A
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INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Given that figure A is a triangle, and one of its sides has a length of 1 foot. It follows that its area is less than 1 square foot
A) Inductive, weak. B) Deductive, valid. C) Deductive, invalid. D) Deductive, sound. E) Inductive, strong.
In Stephen Hawking's anecdote, why did the old lady propose that the universe was built on "turtles all the way down"?
A. It was something she could be certain of. B. She did not think the universe had a foundation. C. Turtles are slow-moving and thus would be stable. D. Each turtle would need something to stand on.
If it be true Christianity to dive with a passionate charity into the darkest recesses of misery and vice, to irrigate every quarter of the earth with the fertilizing stream of an almost boundless benevolence, and to include all the sections of humanity in the circle of an intense and efficacious sympathy; if it be true Christianity to destroy or weaken the barriers which had separated class from class and nation from nation, to free war from its harshest elements, and to make a consciousness of essential equality and of genuine fraternity dominate over all accidental differences; if it be, above all, true Christianity to cultivate a love of truth for its own sake, a spirit of candour and of tolerance towards those with whom we differ-if these be the marks of a true and healthy
Christianity, then never since the days of the Apostles has it been so vigorous as at present. (W. E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe)This passage exemplifies a(n) ________. A. report B. argument C. explanation D. conditional statement E. unsupported assertion
The church year begins with _____, the four-week period of preparation for Christmas Day
A) ?Advent B) ?Epiphany C) ?Lent D) ?Easter