Historical anecdotes and accounts that are oversimplified, misleading, or completely incorrect and that are passed down from one generation of textbooks to another to impart a sense of tradition is something historian of psychology Franz Samelson called

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the origin myth process.

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When Aquinas talks about the four laws, he is referring to

a. society’s laws governing human life, sexuality, freedom, and property. b. physical laws governing objects, plants, animals, and humans. c. the eternal, natural, divine, and human laws. d. the Biblical commandments which apply to our behavior with respect to God, life, sexuality, and property.

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Affirmative action policies have been defended on the grounds of compensatory justice

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. Some trolls are not alligators. Therefore, some alligators are not trolls

A) Invalid; illicit contraposition. B) Invalid; illicit subcontrary. C) Invalid; illicit conversion. D) Invalid; existential fallacy. E) Valid; no fallacy.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each multiple choice question. Which of the following is an argument?

A) A conditional statement. B) A warning. C) A hypothetical syllogism. D) A piece of advice. E) A report.

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