The farther away we look in distance, the further back we look in time. This fact allows us to see what parts of the universe looked like in the distant past. For example, if we look at a galaxy that is 1 billion light years away, its light has taken 1 billion years to reach us¾which means we are seeing it as it looked 1 billion years ago
What will be an ideal response?
Nonargument.
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While Anselm's setting for teaching theology was the monastery, a few decades later Peter Abelard thrived as a teacher of theology in a newly created learning environment, the______ of Paris.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Mead says that many human actions can take place without the accompaniment of
self
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.Jain ascetics take vows to abstain from causing pain to sentient beings, a practice called
a. ahimsa b. yoga c. satya d. sadhu
In the reading selection from Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes says there are many sense experiences “as to which we cannot reasonably have any doubt. . . . For example, there is the fact that I am here, seated by the fire.” Concerning these vivid sense experiences, Descartes says that
a. it is foolish to doubt them. b. I can’t have total certainty about them because I could be dreaming. c. it doesn’t matter if my experiences are true or not, as long as they are pleasant. d. since I have five senses, they all couldn’t be wrong.