How, on Dewey's view, does the isolation of art and its appreciation affect the practice of living?
a. It drives away esthetic perceptions, which are necessary ingredients ofhappiness
b. It commercializes art, and therefore devalues the creative process.
c. All of these choices
d. It devalues the abstract and so thwarts intellectual and estheticindividualism.
a
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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. There appears to be a growing happiness gap between men and women. Women today are working more and relaxing
less, while men are working less and relaxing more. Forty years ago a typical woman spent 40 minutes more per week than the typical man performing an activity considered unpleasant. Today, with men working less, the gap is 90 minutes and growing. A) Argument; conclusion: Today ... the gap is 90 minutes and growing. B) Nonargument. C) Argument; conclusion: Forty years ago ... an activity considered unpleasant. D) Argument; conclusion: There appears to be ... between men and women. E) Argument; conclusion: Women today are working more and relaxing less.
INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. All A are non-B. (F) Conversion
A) All non-B are A. (F) B) All B are non-A. (Und.) C) All non-B are A. (Und.) D) No A are non-B. (Und.) E) All B are non-A. (F)
Indicate whether this statement expresses or contains an argument. "Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. That is why even people who were indifferent to one another rejoice so much when they meet again after twenty or thirty years." - Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
a. Argument b. Non-argument c. Explanation
In his Principles of Political Economy, J.S. Mill argued for the desirability of breaking down the sharp and hostile
division between the producers or workers, on the one hand, and the capitalists or owners, on the other hand.
a. True b. False