According to the records we have, the first thinker to call himself a philosopher was

a. Thales.
b. Pythagoras.
c. Heraclitus.
d. Parmenides.


b.

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A. Satan. B. Elijah. C. an angel sent to assist in the second Jewish rebellion. D. the Messiah.

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Identify which of the following fallacies the following example illustrates. Choose the best answer from the list offered. Now I realize that you were in surgery when I gave the examination. But I cannot let you take a make-up exam. If I do that, then people who were absent due to car accidents or illnesses in the family or just plain "had the flu" would demand make-up exams, too. Then, pretty

soon anyone who was scared of taking one of my tests or had something better to do that day would be asking for make-up exams. a. Overlooking a Common Cause b. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc c. Gambler's Fallacy d. Slippery Slope e. Only Game in Town f. Jumping from Correlation to Cause g. Causal Oversimplification

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The church needs to choose between preaching the gospel and doing good in the world; it cannot see both as part of its mission.

a. true b. false

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StareĀ decisisĀ is the doctrine that even though a court has pronounced a principle of law applicable to a certain set of facts, other judges should follow common sense in determining whether to apply that principle to other cases in which the facts are substantially the same.

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

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