Which of the following is a deductively valid pattern of reasoning and used widely in scientific reasoning as a way of disconfirming, or falsifying, scientific hypotheses?
A. denying the antecedent
B. modus ponens
C. modus tollens
D. affirming the consequent
Answer: C
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a. the love of cruelty b. the love of injustice c. the love of sin d. to gratify some passion or gain an advantage
Manaism is preanimistic, because:
A) ?it does not connect power to spirits living in individual natural things or in species/groups of things. B) ?its followers believe in offering animal sacrifice to deities. C) ?it involves worshiping multiple deities. D) ?it is based on a belief that spiritual powers originate from within a person rather than from an outside force.
The terms used to assign predicates are
A) singular terms. B) terms used to talk about individual things. C) general terms.
Which of the following has taken the strongest position in opposition to the ordination of women to full (including sacramental) participation in the ministry of the church even to the present time?
a. The Congregational Church b. Quakers c. The Mainline Protestant Denominations (United Methodist; Presbyterian Church, USA; European Lutherans, the Episcopal Church, USA) d. The Roman Catholic Church e. Most Pentecostal and Charismatic Denominations