If the person who makes an ideological argument gives a reason why one of the premises is true, then ________
(a) that person has lost the argument
(b) a new argument has been made
(c) the conclusion is probably false
(d) the speaker is untrustworthy
b
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In the past, most folks both learned about and tended the needs of the spirit in the
context of
A. Religious experience B. Meditation C. Holistic medicine D. Astrology
An example of an empirical hypothesis is:
A) Life comes only from life. B) Nature abhors a vacuum. C) An undiscovered planet is responsible for deviations in the orbit of Uranus. D) Life is spontaneously generated from lifeless matter. E) Space and time are relative to each other.
Plato taught that we are at our best when the nonrational parts of our soul are subordinated to the rational part of our soul.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. The government has no right to spy on its citizens because citizens have a right to privacy. And this is true because such a right is guaranteed by the Constitution-which follows from the fact that our founding fathers recognized the sanctity of individual privacy against the intrusive power of the government. And of course
this is true because the government has no right to spy on its citizens. A) No fallacy. B) Red herring. C) Slippery slope. D) Missing the point. E) Begging the question.