Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:Robert may be a pretty good gardener, all right, but you'll notice he lost nearly everything to the bugs this year.

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Innuendo and downplayer ("but").

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a. angels. b. water. c. large cities. d. zombies.

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The "underdetermination thesis"

A) is the thesis that all scientific theory is underdetermined and can be used to prove anything. B) Is the thesis that some scientific theory is underdetermined and can be used to prove more than one hypothesis. C) is used to explain why we will never know whether evolution is true or not. D) is the thesis that science is underdetermined and we will come to understand all science in time.

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Supply a general principle that, assuming it is true, makes the following into a relatively strong inductive argument:Monica may have trouble sleeping tonight, since she drank tea at 10 pm.

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According to Sartre, existence precedes essence

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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