According to Peter Abelard, universals are

a. objective features of things, but do not exist apart from them.
b. nothing more than names we invent.
c. realities that exist apart from the particulars that participate in them.
d. known only to God, but cannot be understood by the human mind.


a

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Which is the correct formula for, "It is not the case that if Nigeria is in Africa, then either Italy is in Europe or Canada is not in North America"

--where C = Canada is in North America, I = Italy is in Europe, and N = Nigeria is in Africa? A) J ? C B) J ? ~C C) ~ [N ? (I v ~ C)]

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

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The psychologist Carl Jung proposed that the reason there are similarities among symbols in different cultures is

a. because symbols involve logical associations with the natural world b. because cultures have borrowed the symbols from one another c. because there are a limited number of symbols available d. because humanity has a collective unconscious from which it draws symbols

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