Exercise: Are you familiar with the word, "parvenu?" Provide a definition. If the term is unfamiliar, make a guess about its meaning based on its appearance or sound, and create your own definition. Then look the word up, and find out how close you got. (We provide a thumbnail meaning as answer.)
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Upstart.
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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and a new statement. You must determine how the new statement is related to the given statement and determine the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. No A are B. (T) All A are B
A) Contrary. (F) B) Contradictory. (F) C) Obversion. (T) D) Conversion. (T) E) Subcontrary. (Und.)
In the story of the two starving men on a raft, if you think the food should go to the scientist because of his greater social contribution, you are
a. a deonotologist b. a utilitarian. c. a subjectivist. d. an egoist.
Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "We know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself
There is no evidence that it is Audrey. In fact, she's too clean, if you know what I mean. Somebody should fire Audrey; she's got to be the spy." By making this argument Chris is actually engaging in __________. (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy
The struggle in Eastern Orthodoxy over the removal of images of Jesus and the Saints from churches was called the _________
A) Chalcedon Controversy B) Iconoclastic Controversy C) Puritan Controversy D) Restoration Controversy