"Laws designed to protect minorities from discrimination actually do promote a more just society and pose no serious questions of constitutionality

We may be certain of this because Paris Hilton, the heiress and television star, supports this view" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization
B) weak analogy
C) false cause
D) appeal to ignorance
E) appeal to unqualified authority


E

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A) Conclusion. B) Conditional. C) Antecedent. D) Explanandum. E) Consequent.

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Kant thought that people should only will actions _______

A. in accordance with a maxim B. such that their maxim should also be adopted by others C. with the best possible intentions for other people D. in such a way that others will see that they have a good will

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

When an area of a Venn diagram is shaded, it indicates that there is at least one thing in that area.

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Let the domain of interpretation be the set of all people; let S denote the class of scholars, A denote the class of athletes, and ...C__denote the binary relationship ...is more competitive than ___. The correct symbolization of "All athletes are more competitive than some scholar" is

a. (x)(?y)(Ax . Sy . xCy) b. (x)(y)((Ax . Sy) ?> xCy) c. (x)(Ax ?> (?y)(Sy . xCy)) d. None of these choices.

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