INSTRUCTIONS: Use indirect truth tables to answer the following problems. Given the statements: P ? (A ? M) / (D ? K) ? (M ? H) / (A • ? H) ? ? D / P • D These statements are:
A) Contradictory.
B) Tautologous.
C) Valid.
D) Inconsistent.
E) Consistent.
D
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a. the government must have absolute power in order to avoid chaos. b. a government derives its authority from God. c. rationality enables humans to perceive the necessity of entering a social contract to create the state. d. prior to the formation of government we do not have any rights
The academic study of philosophy
a. should be kept separate from the study of God. b. might result in the kind of wisdom expressed in sayings such as “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” c. is more like learning how to perform an activity that absorbing a finite set of facts. d. is not something you would associate with a scientist like Albert Einstein.
According to Epicurus:
a. the world is created from nothing. b. the world is destroyed into nothing. c. the world is neither created from nothing nor destroyed into nothing. d. the world is created from nothing, but not destroyed into nothing. e. none of these choices.
INSTRUCTIONS: Use indirect truth tables to answer the following problems. Given the argument: C ? ? M / I ? ? H / (N • I) ? (G • C) / H ? M // G • M This argument is:
A) Uncogent. B) Cogent. C) Sound. D) Invalid. E) Valid.