Identify whether the following claim is a tautology, true by definition, or contingent: The term onomatopoeia is not an example of itself

a. Contingent
b. Definition
c. Tautology


a

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Gwen plays basketball and soccer and has won many awards for the two sports. She thinks she should learn a new sport. She expects to be good at it, given her performance in the other sports. If we don't know which sport she would undertake, would her argument be stronger, weaker, or neither if she had excelled in four sports, rather than two?

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

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Which of the following uses the image of a charioteer?

a. Plato b. The Buddha c. Both Plato and the Buddha d. Neither Plato nor the Buddha

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