INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that some identity crises are tranquil happenings. Therefore, some identity crises are not tranquil happenings
A) Valid, no fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
D) Invalid, illicit conversion.
E) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
A
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What will be an ideal response?
Construct a truth table for (G ? ~ G) ? ~ (G ? ~ G). Which truth values go in the column under the horseshoe inside the first parentheses?
A) TTFFFFTT B) TT C) TTTF D) FT
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A) adultery B) conceit C) cynicism D) drunkenness E) murder
The materialist responds to the argument that the mind and body have different properties by saying
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