By World War I, few scientists believed they could portray the __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
truth about physical reality
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The father of positivism, Auguste Comte, believed in all the following EXCEPT
a. contemporary society was in a state of intellectual anarchy. b. the laws of human behavior can be discovered just as the law of gravity has been; one such law is the "law of three stages" to describe the development of human knowledge. c. in the most primitive stage of human knowledge, natural phenomena was explained by the supernatural. d. the metaphysical stage was a transitional stage in which phenomena were explained through abstractions. e. in the final stage, which included the Enlightenment and Comte's own time, all illusions are dispelled and the mind is convinced only by observation and verifiable information.
Why did the lynching of Emmett Till take place? What effect did it have on the civil rights movement?
What will be an ideal response?
The genocidal murder of __________ Jews during World War II is known as the Holocaust
A) 700,000 B) 2 million C) 6 million D) 20 million
In the 1990s
a. the Chinese Communist Party has worked to conciliate the rural population by increasing the political democracy in urban areas. b. rural conditions are more problematic, as most peasants have only superficially benefited from the post-Mao reforms, and corruption continues unchecked. c. the Party is apparently experimenting with Confucianism and jingoistic nationalism to unite the society, and thus limiting individualism and economic expectations. d. China's economy suffered a devastating depression. e. China prohibited any further foreign investment.