Which direct speech act could "Avoid saying what might break my heart to pieces" be used to perform?
A) informative B) directive C) expressive D) commissive
B
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"Although Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi now rejects terrorism, he has encouraged violence in the past" is
A) a negation B) a conjunction C) a disjunction D) a simple proposition
The Scottish anthropologist who wrote the multivolume study of mythology called The Golden Bough is
A. C. G. Jung. B. James Frazer. C. E. B. Tylor. D. Sigmund Freud.
One reason utilitarianism doesn't require us to always be saints (always strive to improve the world) is that:
a. when we try to this we usually fail b. utilitarianism tells us to make ourselves, not others, as happy as possible c. utilitarianism instructs us to avoid harming others; it says nothing about improving the world d. our health is the most important thing; always working to improve he world would hurt us