Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were American deists



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The seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza insisted

A) ?that God is everything, identical to the universe itself. B) ?that God is absolutely transcendent. C) ?that pantheism must be wrong. D) ?on returning to polytheism.

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"Any state that is to have a new governor will be better off with a Republican. Since our state will have a new governor, it follows that it will be better off with a Republican" commits the fallacy of

A) begging the question B) begging the question against C) complex question D) false alternatives E) accident

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"An eye for an eye" fits with a(n) theory of punishment

a) utilitarian b) conservative c) retributivist d) distributivist

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Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument."The argument advanced at a recent government hearing-that because we will not be dependent on plutonium for more than a few hundred years it 'will not be an important problem indefinitely'-entirely misses the point. Though we may rely on plutonium for only a relatively brief period, the plutonium produced during that period may be with us indefinitely, and it may jeopardize the lives of many times the number of generations that profit from its use."-Ronald M. Green, "International Justice and Environmental Responsibility"

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