In the context of evidence and experience, identify a true statement.
A. Experience can never be evidence for a claim.
B. An experience can be used as evidence if other evidence does not contradict it.
C. Experience is always credible evidence for a claim regardless of what other evidence is available.
D. None of these answers is correct.
Answer: B
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What will be an ideal response?
Cording to Sidgwick, the aim of a philosopher is:
a. to merely define common moral opinions. b. to show how people ought to think. c. to transcend common sense. d. "to merely define common moral opinions" and "to show how people ought tothink." e. "to show how people ought to think" and "to transcend common sense."
The U. S. trade deficit has shrunk significantly in recent decades
a. True b. False
An assessment of costs and benefits inevitably involves
A) facts. B) monetary costs only. C) false opinions. D) value judgements and factual uncertainties