INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. It's dangerous to use a hair dryer while taking a bath. But a rechargeable shaver is an electrical device no less than a hair dryer. Therefore, it's dangerous to use a rechargeable shaver while taking a bath
A) Appeal to force.
B) Begging the question.
C) No fallacy
D) Weak analogy.
E) Missing the point.
D
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INSTRUCTIONS: Use an ordinary truth table to answer the following problems. Construct the truth table as per the instructions in the textbook. Statement 1F Given the following statement: ? [K ? (N ? K)] The truth table for Statement 1F has how many lines?
A) Six. B) Eight. C) Two. D) Four. E) Nine.
If you endorse rationalist epistemology you are committed to the pragmatist view of truth
a. True b. False
One of the challenges to ethical egoism in the United States comes from ________, which is the theory that community is the basis of ethics.
A. socialism B. rationalism C. consequentialism D. communitarianism
According to Montmarquet, one way our character traits significantly influence our
behavior is by influencing a. our deepest emotions. b. our awareness of major ethical rules. c. what sorts of situations we place ourselves in and what situations we avoid. d. the sympathy and pity we feel for others and the sensitivity we have to our own moral intuitions. e. our alertness to the ethical implications of our everyday lives and behavior.