"Of the 253 Western Pacific Railroad freight locomotives surveyed at random by the railroad, none had defective brakes. It follows that there are no freight locomotives on the Western Pacific line with defective brakes" is an example of

A) enumerative induction B) statistical syllogism C) causal argument D) analogy


A

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Confucianism is alone among the world's great religious philosophies in emphasizing the

correct use of _________.

a. ceremony b. moral stipulations c. ritual d. language

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Which of the following statements would John Stuart Mill accept and Jeremy Bentham reject?

a. Happiness is not identical to sensuous pleasure. b. Consequences play no role in determining what is morally right. c. No one can say which pleasures are better than others. d. all of the above

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A precisely described and finite procedure for solving a problem is called

A. a logical process. B. a finite method. C. a tautology. D. an algorithm.

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