Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text.My front door would creak every time I opened or shut it. I read in an old carpentry publication that the way to fix the problem is tighten the hinges and grease the screws. I did it, and it cured the problem.
What will be an ideal response?
Paired unusual events principle, and in this case just fine.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. For Christian ethics, the moral rightness of following God's laws became more important than the belief in the human ability to shape one's own character. 2. Aristotle was accused of the same crimes as Socrates. 3. For Aristotle, some means are closer to one extreme than the other. 4. Today, the assumption that everything has a purpose is commonly accepted. 5. Aristotle served as a powerful inspiration for Thomas Aquinas because Aristotle was Aquinas's teacher. When Aristotle died, Aquinas opened up his own school based on Aristotle's principles of teaching.
Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue."Public restrooms are so unhygienic. Can you prove otherwise?"
What will be an ideal response?
Sartre agrees with Descartes about the nature of the self
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Two statements are contradictories if
A. they cannot both be false. B. they cannot both be true. C. they cannot correspond. D. they cannot have the same truth value.