The following argument is an instance of which form? All soldiers are brave. Helena is a soldier. Therefore, Helena is brave
a. statistical syllogism
b. affirming the antecedent
c. quasi-syllogism
d. affirming the consequent
c
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Given two statements, A and B, we can say that A is equivalent to B in the Logic of Statements provided that ___________________
(a) A is a tautology and B is contingent (b) A is insistent and B is a tautology (c) the conditional (A ïÆ' B) is a tautology (d) the bi-conditional (A ≠¡ B) is a tautology
The following dispute: Dave: I see in the paper that the man who has been in a persistent vegetative state for the past 12 years died yesterday. Beth: That's not correct. The man died 12 years ago when he permanently lost consciousness. It was only his body that died yesterday. is best described as:
A) Irresolvable. B) Theological. C) Verbal arising from vagueness. D) Factual. E) Verbal, arising from ambiguity.
What is indirect speciesism?
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