According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons?
What will be an ideal response?
God.
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The information that a sentence conveys is its
A. emotive force. B. extension. C. cognitive meaning. D. lexical definition.
Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Reconstruction of a remark heard at a faculty meeting: "The quality of teaching performance cannot be measured. No matter what administrators at campuses around the country might say, teaching performance is simply not the kind of thing to which you can assign measurable variables and then compare a bunch of numbers at the beginning of a course and again at its end. That isn't the way it works."
What will be an ideal response?
The following passage contains an argument that commits at least one informal fallacy. Name the type of fallacy committed and explain why the passage is an example of that type. Teacher: So, tell me Stephen, did you plagiarize this paper, too? Stephen: No, of course not! Teacher: So, you admit you've plagiarized your other papers!
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Critics charge that the divine command theory makes morality arbitrary. 2. Immanuel Kant claimed that the principles of religious ethics and philosophical ethics contradict one another. 3. One of George Mavrodes’s criticisms of secular ethics is that it lacks a metaphysical basis. 4. According to Bertrand Russell and Kai Nielsen, morality has no need of God. 5. The author of the text agrees with James Rachels that it is always wrong to give up one’s autonomy when deciding what to do.