Scottish philosopher David Hume argued that the will is free only when it _______
A. is not constrained by external compulsion
B. determines the action that it causes
C. does not act as a result of disordered impulses
D. is impeded by natural desires
Answer: A
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best translates the statement into a standard form categorical proposition. A child screamed
A) All children are persons who screamed. B) No persons who screamed are non-children. C) Some children are persons who screamed. D) Some children are persons who did not scream. E) Some persons who screamed are not children.
The hugely popular Disney animated feature film Frozen is considered feminist in the sense that it
A. supports the princess phenomenon. B. is a marked countermeasure to gender stereotypes. C. propagates radical feminism. D. focuses on explaining why patriarchy is not the root cause of gender discrimination.
The hypothetical syllogism form always uses _______
A. modus ponens B. conditional statements as premises C. premises that are not factual D. a conclusion that is not factual
The guiding principle of reductio ad absurdum is that
A. whatever implies a contradiction is false. B. systems of natural deduction often lead to absurd conclusions. C. it is not always possible to reduce a set of statements to absurdity. D. often the most straightforward method for deriving a contradiction is by assuming an absurdity.