Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument.Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. Bodies are in space and subject to the mechanical laws that govern all other bodies in space. But minds are not in space, nor are their operations subject to mechanical laws. Bodily processes and states can be inspected by external observers, but the workings of one mind are not witnessable by other observers. And so a person lives through two collateral histories; but the actual transactions between the episodes of the private history and those of the public history remain mysterious, since by definition they can belong to neither series.-Adapted from Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Argument.
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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some A are B. (T) Obversion
A) Some B are A. (T) B) Some non-B are non-A. (T) C) Some A are not non-B. (T) D) Some non-A are not non-B. (T) E) Some non-A are not B. (Und.)