According to Michel Foucault, an episteme is

a. a selfevident truth.
b. an empirically verified truth.
c. a universal, objective category of the mind.
d. the conceptual framework of a historical period.


d.

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Idicate whether the statement is true or false

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Rachels argues that if we reject cultural relativism we are forced to adopt

ethnocentrism; since ethnocentrism is clearly immoral, cultural relativism must be true.

a. True b. False

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Freud argued that laughter expresses

A) ?a sense of one's superiority. B) involuntary neurological reactions.? C) ?the release of suppressed thoughts or desires in a slightly revised or displaced form. D) a perception of the incongruity in situations.

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In a truth table for determining the validity of "~ A ? F, A .•. ~ F", which truth values go in the column under "~ F"?

A) FFTT B) TT C) FFFFTTTT D) FTFT

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