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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