Explain the role hedonistic thinking played in the origins of Stoicism.
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Stoicism is a refutation of one of the earliest and most persistent, perhaps even the most basic, theories of happiness: Pursue pleasure (whatever suits you) and avoid pain (whatever causes you suffering and discomfort). Stoics believe that noting can make you happy or unhappy without your consent. All unhappiness is the result of bad thinking, poor character, and confusing what we can control with what we cannot control.
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Determine whether the following claim is best classified as semantically ambiguous (and whether this contains grouping ambiguities), syntactically ambiguous, or free from ambiguity: The wizard made a pig of himself.
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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Health care is a basic right. Our current system is convoluted and unethical and should go the way of gladiator
games. We can spar and battle in the free market in many arenas, but when we get sick we should all have care-not just the lawyers, bankers, politicians, and others who can afford it. We like the free market, but we shouldn't let people die in the street-not in this country. Lucius Schoenbaum, Letter to the Editor A) Argument; conclusion: We can spar and battle ... others who can afford it. B) Argument; conclusion: We like the free market ... not in this country. C) Argument; conclusion: Our current system is convoluted ... gladiator games. D) Nonargument. E) Argument; conclusion: Health care is a basic right.
Which one of the following is false?
A. If there are several competing explanations for something, one might be the best explanation even though it's probably false B. If there are possible explanations that we haven't considered, then even the most probable of the explanations we have considered might have a probability of less than 50% C. If a theory makes a piece of evidence more likely than a competing theory does, then after updating on the evidence, that theory should be more probable than the competing theory. D. Just because a theory is the best explanation from among the explanations that have occurred to us, it doesn't follow that it's probably true.
Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."-Frank Zappa
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