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. Cats can see in the dark because they have a special mirror-like layer of cells behind their retina called the

tapetum lucidum. When light passes through the retina, it is reflected back through it by this layer of cells, and this provides additional stimulation to the retina's light receptors.

A) Argument; conclusion: This provides additional ... light receptors.

B) Argument; conclusion: When light passes through ... by this layer of cells.

C) Argument; conclusion: They have a special ... tapetum lucidum.

D) Argument; conclusion: Cats can see in the dark.

E) Nonargument.


E

Philosophy & Belief

You might also like to view...

According to Leibniz, the notion of my actions being free

a. is impossible if there is an allpowerful God. b. means that my actions have no causes. c. means that they are caused by my character and not by external causes. d. implies that they are unpredictable.

Philosophy & Belief

The parent-child bond thrives on a sense of dependence, based at first on the obvious needs

of the _________.

a. child b. parent c. ancestral lineage d. mother

Philosophy & Belief

Considering the context in which it was most likely uttered, would you say the following claim is ambiguous, too vague, or neither?The girls played with the boys.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Philosophy & Belief

Rationalists base all knowledge upon experience

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Philosophy & Belief