According to Clifford,
A) carefully gathering and judging evidence is a moral as well as an epistemic duty.
B) questioning beliefs is not a universal duty.
C) credulity is good for society because it promotes trust.
D) all believing rests and ought to rest on our passions and desires.
A
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a. Understanding the forms b. The capacity to think freely c. Power over others d. Knowledge of many things
In the context of ethical subjectivism, ________ is the moral theory that moral statements are neither true nor false but simply expressions of feeling.
A. ethical skepticism B. emotivism C. egotism D. individual relativism
Education in the manner Hooks promotes, is, she says, education as the practice of ________
a. discipline b. imagination c. freedom d. memorization
The quality of a discussion often depends on how closely the parties attend to the same issue. For the passage below, determine whether the speakers are clearly disputing the same issue, or whether somebody is missing the point.A: Experimentation on animals? Horrid, awful, immoral! No argument would justify experimenting on animals that wouldn't also justify experimenting on humans.B: You're overlooking all the medical advances that have resulted from experimenting on animals.
What will be an ideal response?