Which of the following is a type of fallacy involving irrelevant premises?
A. ad hominem
B. equivocation
C. false cause
D. argument from ignorance
A. ad hominem
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Increased awareness of the validity of ways of life that are different from their own has led many Westerners to question __________
a. moral objectivism. b. moral relativism. c. the value of tolerance. d. their rejection of ethnocentrism.
According to Popper, science is interested in truth that is
A) consistent with what we already know. B) not really truth at all, but falsifiable. C) unattainable. D) interesting and relevant to difficult problems.
That accounts of Jesus reflect that he lived and died under the Roman empire is an example of a __________ fit
a. academic b. historical c. ideological d. sociological
Consequentialism
A) is best represented by Ross's theory of ethics. B) states that sometimes the consequences of our actions can be morally relevant. C) states that the moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its results. D) differs from nonconsequentialism because nonconsequentialism denies that consequences have any moral significance.