Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."If the legislature can get away with requiring background checks, it will be encouraged to go forward with universal registration of guns, then to eventual banning of gun ownership. Let's not start down this path."
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Slippery slope.
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The period of time between a scientist's rejection of one paradigm and his acceptance of another:
A. is the only time theory neutral observations are possible. B. is determined by the age of the scientist. C. is a period of puzzle-solving. D. occurs during a time of normal science. E. There is no such period of time.
Transcendence, in Marcuse's terminology, is:
A. entering a higher, non-material realm. B. an imaginative leap beyond the repressions of the given social world. C. an act of artistic revolt, such as calling a blank canvas a painting. D. the realization that surplus repression is different from necessary repression. E. the realization that all repression is surplus repression.
Stoicism stressed which of the following?
a. logos b. monotheism c. transcendence d. Gnosticism
The Sama-Veda would be referred to when a priest
a. is looking for a prayer or litany. b. requires chants for the soma sacrifices. c. is praying silently. d. conducts a funeral.