Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:Surely you can't say that the American people have ever been behind Bill Clinton. After all, he got a mere 43 million votes in 1992, which is five million fewer than what George Bush got when he beat Dukakis in 1988.
What will be an ideal response?
"Mere" is a downplayer.
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__________ is the phenomenal aspect of mental states
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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According to Gilbert Ryle, it is a category mistake to think that minds are things because minds are
A. brains. B. microscopically small bodies. C. immaterial spirits. D. patterns of behavior.
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