Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Attempts to use solar energy on a large scale could have profound results. For example, it could change the
albedo of the earth. This is the percentage of sunlight that is reflected back into space. Such an occurrence could cause a substantial change in the temperature of the earth, just as any other energy conversion does, making the planet too hot for life. Robert S. Boikess and Edward Edelson, Chemical Principles
A) Argument; conclusion: This is the percentage of sunlight ... back into space.
B) Argument; conclusion: Such an occurrence could cause ... too hot for life.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument; conclusion: It could change the albedo of the earth.
E) Argument; conclusion: Attempts to use solar energy ... profound results.
E
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A) Bill had the desire to help only because helping made Bill feel good. B) Bill felt good after helping. C) by not acting Bill's conscience would have bothered him later. D) Bill acted out of his own desire to help.
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What will be an ideal response?
According to your text, philosophy is a practice of
a. giving reasons in support of one’s beliefs and actions. b. collecting different opinions on weird questions. c. finding an alternative to religious belief. d. finding beliefs that are emotionally appealing.