Use a counterexample to show that the following argument is invalid. (Remember, it is usually best to use terms—or statements—whose interrelations are well known.) "All people who bite their fingernails in public are neurotic overachievers. Since all neurotic overachievers are philosophers, all philosophers are people who bite their fingernails in public."
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All collies are dogs. All dogs are mammals. So, all mammals are collies.
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Descartes' key point that we can achieve genuine knowledge through our rational intuition into the nature of beliefs is based in his _______
A. nationalism B. atheism C. rationalism D. empiricism
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Rawls’s objection to the welfare or utilitarian approach to distributive justice is that
while it might arrive at the fight solutions, it does so because of _____________
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On mill's view, whose happiness is relevant for determining the right kind of conduct
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