Which item in the following set of claims has the most negative emotive meaning?a. Conversation is not Daryll's forte.b. Daryll descends from simple folk, you know, "people of the earth."c. Daryll is not very clever.d. Daryll would lose a duel of wits with a gum ball machine.
What will be an ideal response?
These are easy to answer; the point is to consider how many positive and negative ways there are to say essentially the same thing, and then to learn to control the emotive meaning of one's own remarks. Besides, these can be fun.
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A. men’s dollars B. men’s ideas C. men’s minds D. men’s passions
The __________ held that the purpose a person had in mind while doing a deed determined its validity
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Placher states that while Luther began his program of reforming the Church with the teaching of justification by grace through faith, another reformer, Ulrich Zwingli, began with
A) the absolute authority of Scripture B) justification by works through faith C) the doctrine of creation out of nothing D) a belief in the soon-to-come end of the world
A posteriori means:
a. after experience, requiring experience b. occupying a posterior or last position in logic c. standing in the post position d. none of the above