The view that truth is an agreement between a proposition and some facts in the world is the

____________________ theory of truth.



Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


ANSWER: correspondence

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"Presidents McKinley, Coolidge, Harding, Hoover, Taft, and Reagan all favored legislation giving an advantage to financiers. So did both Presidents Bush. And all these men were conservative Republicans

Since Senator Jones is also a conservative Republican, we can expect that he favors legislation giving an advantage to financiers" is A) valid B) invalid

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The process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong is known as:

What will be an ideal response?

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Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text."Four years ago, nonfat milk sold for 95 cents per half gallon. Today I paid $1.45 per half gallon at one of our low-priced supermarkets. That's a 52 percent increase in just four years for an average of 13 percent per year, while the official government inflation rate is less than 3 percent. Why is this? It's not a coincidence that four years ago we got our first Republican governor in this state in a long time."-From a newspaper call-in column

What will be an ideal response?

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For Popper, science can be distinguished from pseudo-science:

A. only by recognized practitioners of science. B. because the former is falsifiable. C. because the latter has been proven false. D. because all swans are white. E. because the former fails to make predictions.

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