Descartes rejected methodic doubt

indicate whethet this statement is true or false


ANS: F

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Keeping in mind the sources cited, discuss the credibility of the claim(s) made in the following passage:"The mail order company Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. says in its consumer catalogs that it sells nothing but the best. The company supports its claims by what it calls independent testing. But Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, in a book called The Mis-Fortune 500 (New York: Pocket Books, 1988), say that while a 1986 letter to potential customers claimed that a 'completely separate' 'consumer' organization tested and compared the products offered by Hammacher Schlemmer, in reality:"the testing organization is called the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute.""the institute is funded by Hammacher Schlemmer & Co.""the institute's board of directors is composed of Hammacher Schlemmer officials.""the

institute is located at Hammacher Schlemmer company headquarters in Chicago." What will be an ideal response?

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Suppose we find that eating an expensive health supplement is correlated with lower mortality in the general population. Before concluding that the result is causal, we should be primarily concerned about... (note: your job is to distinguish which of these is the most probable non-causal explanation.)

A. reverse causation B. a common cause C. regression to the mean D. placebo effect

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According to Berkeley, the word "apple" refers to

a. nothing more than a collection of experiences in our minds. b. a material object. c. a substance underlying what is experienced. d. nothing, since reality does not exist.

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What is Pascal's wager? Does it provide a good reason for believing in God? Why or why not?

What will be an ideal response?

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