“The United States Postal Service should be taken over by a private company as soon as possible” is a claim of ______.

a. policy
b. value
c. conjecture
d. fact


a. policy

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Peter Gordon, a psycholinguist at Columbia University, studied Brazil's Pirahas tribe and their use of language. He found that they had very few words for time and no words for numbers or numerical ideas. Gordon's study, published in the journal Science, found that the Pirahas were incapable of doing basic math, and in fact, they were incapable of learning even the concept of numbers, despite eight months of tutoring. The fact that this tribe of people could not conceive of something for which they had no vocabulary reflects what principle?

A. Linguistic determinism B. Ambiguous language C. Ladder of abstraction D. Linguistic relativity

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Elianna, the accounts manager, is planning to invite her team members for lunch this weekend. She needs to know how many of her colleagues will be coming, so she can make reservations at the restaurant for the rightnumber of people

SoElianna sends out an email to the team with just a subject and no body content. The subject line reads, "Lunch. The Paradise Hotel, 06/03, Coming?" What aspect of email etiquette did Elianna leave out? a. Deadline b. Suggestion c. Solution d. Hint

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Darla very strongly believes that??guns don?t kill people, people kill people.??The strength of her belief is an example of which aspect of the multimensionality of values?

A) direction B) salience C) intensity D) bearing

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