What does Kant mean when he says freedom is a postulate of practical reason?
What will be an ideal response?
When we are acting or deciding to act, we must think of our own acts of will and decisions as the sufficient explanatory causes of our actions, and we cannot continue the causal chain backward to consider whether those acts of will are themselves caused. When we act, in other words, we cannot think of ourselves except as acting freely.
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In the definition "'Ray' means a narrow beam of light" the definiendum is:
A) Beam. B) Ray. C) Light. D) Beam of light. E) A narrow beam of light.
The Petersburg Paradox gave rise to which of the following economic concepts?
a. the wage-price spiral. b. the supply-demand curve. c. the diminishing marginal utility of money. d. All of these choices.
According to evolutionary ethics,
A. ethics is the product of natural selection. B. creationism is immoral. C. ethics is evolving. D. creationism should not be taught in schools.
In the following passage, identifying sample, population, attribute of interest, and the extent to which the claims involved are knowable. Consider carefully the size and diversification of the sample and the extent to which the population differs or may differ from the sample; remember, what's important is that the sample be representative. Would our professor's conclusion, "About 32 percent of college faculty nationwide maintain home offices," be more likely if she had included faculty from other institutions among her survey? Why?A college professor converted one room of her house into a home office and intended to deduct her expenses on her federal income tax return. She wondered how many other college faculty had done the same, thinking that the more who deducted home offices, the
less likely her own return would be noticed by the IRS and hence the less likely she would be audited. So she decided to do her own informal survey of her colleagues to see how many of them had home offices. She sent out a questionnaire of three questions to all 1,200 instructors at her campus, and she received 950 responses. (Her promise to share the results of the survey apparently motivated faculty to respond.)As it turned out, 32 percent of her respondents answered yes to the question, "Do you maintain an office at home?" Half of these also answered yes to the question, "Do you deduct your home office expenses on your federal income tax return?" And 24 percent of the entire group of respondents answered yes to the question, "Is your campus office adequate?" What will be an ideal response?