An explanation designed to help believers understand the world and know how to behave is a __________

a. myth
b. creed
c. doctrine
d. narrative


C

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If you overhear a professor of religion say that Hinduism is not a religion, what might be his or her academic justification for this statement?

a. It should only be considered a sect of Buddhism. b. It has no sacred texts. c. It has many deities. d. Hinduism has so many variations and is so diverse.

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The knower and the known are considered separate in:

a. Buddhism b. Taoism c. Western metaphysics d. Native American thought

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"An arid region, for purposes of this meteorological study, is any region that receives on average less than 15 inches of rain a year." This is an example of a ________.

A. lexical definition B. persuasive definition C. precising definition D. stipulative definition

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Implicational rules of inference may, within truth-functional logic, be validly applied to parts of compound statements or lines in a proof.

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