What did Descartes hope to use to establish certainty?

A) God

B) Religion

C) Skepticism

D) Empiricism


C

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W. M. Brown considers the argument that performance enhancing drugs are dangerous to

the athletes that use them, and he gives two answers to that argument: first, that it is excessively paternalistic; and second, that it is a. factually false, since such drugs do not pose health risks. b. hypocritical, since few object to much more serious dangers associated with many athletic activities. c. a futile and useless objection, since once performance enhancing drugs are available there is no way to effectively prevent their use. d. counterproductive, because trying to ban the drugs on the basis of health risks will only lead to the use of more masking agents to prevent detection, and those agents may be more harmful than the performance enhancing drugs themselves. e. so vague as to be meaningless, given that there is no effective way to measure any increased risk to long-term health that results specifically from such drugs.

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"Energy may become more scarce in the near future, for either we redistribute accessibility to it or it becomes more scarce in the near future. But we will not redistribute accessibility to it" is a

A) modus tollens B) modus ponens C) contraposition D) hypothetical syllogism E) disjunctive syllogism

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Using a name or description of an item that you can't point to, provide a definition by example for "toothache." If you have difficulty doing so, try to identify the source of the trouble.

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following accurately describes the role that reason plays in the formation of moral judgments (according to Hume)

A. Reason plays absolutely no role in the formation of moral judgments. B. Reason gives us the necessary information about what is useful and agreeable. C. Reason is incapable of producing feelings of approbation or blame. D. All of the above.

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