Innate ideas are believed to be:
a. silly, not worthy of philosophical attention
b. concerned with internal as opposed to external reality
c. inborn or present from birth
d. provable, usin
c.
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The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. If the trade in tiger products is banned, tiger reserves are guarded by well equipped staff, communities abutting tiger habitat are given a stake in protecting tigers, and the makers of traditional medicines can be persuaded that tiger parts are not needed,
then tiger poaching will be halted, habitat and life sustaining prey will be restored, and the immanent extinction of tigers in the wild will be averted. A) Nonargument. B) Argument; conclusion: The trade in tiger products is banned. C) Argument; conclusion: Tiger poaching will be halted. D) Argument; conclusion: The makers of traditional medicines ... not needed. E) Argument; conclusion: Tiger poaching will be halted ... will be averted.
INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and a new statement. You must determine how the new statement is related to the given statement and determine the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some non-A are not B. (F) No non-A are B
A) Contradiction. (T) B) Subcontrary. (Und.) C) Subcontrary. (T) D) Subalternation. (Und.) E) Subalternation. (F)
The following argument is valid: "If the moon is made of cheese, then we can eat the moon. We cannot eat the moon. Therefore, the moon is not made of cheese."
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
When Socrates said that he had made a tacit agreement to obey the laws of his society, his position could be called a version of
a. natural law theory. b. conventionalism. c. social contract theory. d. ethical intellectualism.