What do the Stoics think falls under our control? What do the Stoics think does not fall under our control?
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Answer: Stoics believe that we can control our attitude to the events around us and therefore limit suffering and maximize contentedness or happiness. They believe all unhappiness is a result of bad thinking, poor character and confusing what we can control with what we cannot control. Stoics believe we cannot control things like traffic jams, lines and crowds, or the actions of other people.
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Let's get this straight now. Guns, evil. Abortion, good. Restrictions on gun ownership. Federal protection of abortion clinics and abortionists. Register your guns, but you don't have to tell your parents or the father you're having an abortion. A relative handful of kids tragically get killed because a few people went beserk or played with their daddy's gun; but thousands of kids are killed every year by abortion. Guns evil? Abortion good? There is something really, really wrong going on here. (From a newspaper call-in column)This passage is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.
A. argument; conclusion: Guns are good and abortion is evil B. argument; conclusion; There is something really, really wrong here C. nonargument; conditional statement D. nonargument; unsupported assertion
According to Adam Smith’s view of the supply and demand process, how do consumers affect the price of a commodity?
a. When there is not enough supply, consumers will bid the price of an item above the natural price. b. Producers reap greater profits when the price of the commodity is set below the natural price. c. When there is a shortage of a commodity, the price will sink to its natural level. d. Producers strive to achieve a natural pricing level in order to promote social utility.
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An inductive argument is sound if its premises are true.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)