"Savings up to 70% storewide!" This ad employs ________.

A. puffery
B. emotive language
C. weasel words
D. None of the answers are correct


Answer: C

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a. Whenever someone dies another life should be taken b. Anyone who kills another person deserves to die c. Anyone who murders in cold blood deserves to die d. any of the above

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A deductive argument can be a poor argument even if it is logically valid.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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William James argued that science demonstrates that all our actions are determined by previous causes

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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In speaking on the nature of reality, Heraclitus uses the image of

a. water appearing in the form of a liquid, gas, or solid. b. mathematics being the basis of our knowledge of everything. c. fire constantly changing and transforming things. d. air expanding and contracting.

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