One problem with the identity theory of the mind is
A) no one will ever accept it.
B) its denial that mental states feel real to humans.
C) the scientific problem of the materialist view of nature.
D) the conceptual problem of the mind's private nature.
D
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a. materialism rejects the idea that an independent immaterial substance (like a soul) exists, while critical naturalism affirms the idea. b. materialism rejects all forms of supernaturalism, while critical naturalism affirms some forms of supernatural existence. c. materialism views all reality as a mechanical process, while critical naturalism holds that life can not be reduced to physiochemical processes. d. materialism rejects the claims of religious experience made by mystics, while critical naturalism embraces such claims.
Which of the following is a deductively valid pattern of reasoning and used widely in scientific reasoning as a way of disconfirming, or falsifying, scientific hypotheses?
A. denying the antecedent B. modus ponens C. modus tollens D. affirming the consequent
Some New Testament scholars think that Acts and the Pastoral Epistles reflect a hybrid type of early church government that combines the elder of the Jewish synagogue type church with the bishop and deacon of the house church type.
a. true b. false