If someone is a student at Hogwart's, then he or she is studying witchcraft and wizardry. Neville Longbottom is a student at Hogwart's. Therefore, Neville Longbottom is studying witchcraft and wizardry

This is an excellent example of Modus Ponens, or the Asserting Rule.
A. True
B. False


Answer: True

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In his book, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, Kwame Appiah

decribed three situations where moral change occurred in the context of a pluralistic world. The issues he described included all of the following except:

a. the Chinese practice of foot binding in China b. dueling in England c. slavery d. fox hunting

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Who held that many linguistic utterances have only an expressive function?

a. William James b. Thomas Hobbes c. Rudolf Carnap d. Jacques Derrida

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INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Some princes are not military officers, since some reigning monarchs are not military officers and some princes are reigning monarchs

A) Deductive valid. B) Inductive, weak. C) Deductive, invalid. D) Inductive, strong. E) Inductive, sound.

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Mavrodes argues that if the actual world were a Russellian world, morality would be rather queer

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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