There are five common approaches to punishment. Out of these four, select the one that is not considered legitimate by most legal experts.

A. rehabilitation
B. vengeance
C. retribution
D. deterrence


B. vengeance

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According to Gordon Allport, extrinsically religious people tend to:

A. prioritize spiritual experiences over the worship of a superior transcendent being. B. consider morality to be subjective and variable from person to person. C. be morally autonomous and tend to adhere to universal moral principles instead of religious tenets. D. be heteronomous moral reasoners who uncritically accept the tenets of civil religion.

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Making an assumption that something is true simply because most people believe it to be true is an example of the ________ form of the popular appeal fallacy.

A. red herring B. bandwagon approach C. hasty generalization D. snob appeal

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Given the following enthymeme: Schools cannot discriminate if they receive federal financing, and Hamilton College receives federal financing. The statement needed to convert the enthymeme into a valid syllogism is:

A) Not all schools receive federal financing. (Premise) B) Some colleges other than Hamilton College discriminate. (Conclusion) C) Hamilton College can discriminate. (Conclusion) D) Hamilton College cannot discriminate. (Premise) E) Hamilton College cannot discriminate. (Conclusion)

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Descartes knows that the reason the world exists because:

a. he thinks it b. the evil genius guarantees it c. God guarantees it d. he observes it

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