For decades, renowned Zen master __________of Vietnam has advocated an "engaged Buddhism" that works nonviolently and with compassion for peace and justice, even in response to terrorism in the world

a. the Dalai Lama
b. Gautama Siddhartha
c. Indira Gandhi
d. Thich Nhat Hanh
e. Yohanan ben Zakkai


d

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Remaining faithful to the struggle of Islam to the point of exertion in "holy war" is known as

_________.

a. hajj b. shahada c. salat d. jihad

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Which of the following is the best description of contingent statement in the Logic of Statements? "A grammatically correct expression ___________________

(a) used to assert that if an antecedent statement is true, then a consequent statement is true (b) that turns out to be false under every possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements (c) that turns out to be true under at least one possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements and false under another possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements (d) that turns out to be true under every possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements

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To say that the existence of something is "contingent" means that

a. its existence is logically impossible. b. its existence as well as its nonexistence is logically possible. c. its existence is logically necessary. d. it is impossible for experience to tell whether it exists or not.

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Historicism is the claim that

a. history is blind and without purpose. b. the truth of an idea is relative to its historical setting. c. history is an eternal cycle where everything is repeated and no progress is ever made. d. the study of history is without value.

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