Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Within the context of total ignorance, you are absolutely correct."-Caption in a National Review cartoon
What will be an ideal response?
This is the height of downplaying, as it were; although the remark is clearly designed more to amuse than to persuade.
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Augustine's most famous works are:
a.Summa Theologica and Confessions b.The Problem of Evil and Summa Theologica c.The Nature of God and Confessions d.Confessions and City of God e.Sin and The Divine Light
A chief aim of the philosophy of science is
A) the gradual assimilation of philosophy to science. B) verification of the various theories advanced by the sciences. C) critical analysis of the various sciences. D) establishing the superiority of science over religion.
Bacon thought that the same methods used in mathematics would provide a foundation for scientific method
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Assume you are to arrange a tour for classmates to three of the most significant Buddhist sites. What sites would you choose? How would you defend each as "among the most significant"?
What will be an ideal response?