"Our local radio station has played an important part in public awareness of the need to protect our environment. This suggests that American media always promote public awareness of the need to protect our environment" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


A

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a. Whitehead/panentheism. b. criticisms of panentheism/criticism s of the finite deity view. c. moral “dos and donts”/the social gospel d. complementary/Aquinas’s “Five Ways”

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Which of the following is a moral basis for disclosure of corporate information?

A. Each person has the right to know those actions of others that could benefit him. B. Each person has the right to any information about a company he desires. C. Each person has the right to enter a transaction fairly and thus is required to inform others of his intent. D. Each person has the right to know those actions of others that will serious and adversely affect him.

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The oldest partial, but substantial, copies of the books of the Old Testament are found in

A) the Rosetta Stone B) the Gilgamesh Epic C) the Leningrad Codex D) the Septuagint E) the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Which of the following events would Ayn Rand most likely use to support her view of Marxism?

A. the current popularity of old Marx brothers' movies B. the collapse of the Soviet Union C. the current problems in the American health care system D. global capitalism and the growing gap between rich and poor nations

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