Nirvana can be described as

a. a heavenly world of peace and love among people.
b. clear, rational understanding of the laws of the universe.
c. an exalted state in which one becomes a god/goddess.
d. having the self permanently extinguished like the flame on a candle.


d

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All Christian Bibles contain a section of twenty-seven books known as

a. the Apocrypha b. Tanakh c. the Old Testament d. the New Testament

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The unborn human being has value because it is a member of the human family

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Suppose that a philosophy professor is able to monitor the amount of time her logic students spend working on a computerized tutorial program. When the students spend 5 hours on the program, their average grade increases by 4 percentage points. When they spend 10 hours on the program, their average grade increases by an additional 4 percentage points, and when they spend 15 hours working on the

program, their grades increase by yet an additional 4 percentage points. The professor concludes that work on the tutorial program causes an increase in student grades. What method did the professor use in drawing this conclusion? A) The method of difference. B) The method of agreement. C) The method of concomitant variation. D) The method of residues. E) The joint method of agreement and difference.

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The Uniform Determination of Death Act has helped to determine death by defining two test: (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions and (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem.

a. true b. false

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