When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. (Edmund Burke, "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents")This statement is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.
A. nonargument; unsupported assertion
B. nonargument; explanation
C. argument; conclusion: When bad men combine, the good must associate
D. argument; conclusion: Else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
Answer: C
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a. necessarily true. b. probably true. c. valid. d. sound
Edmund Gettier argued that
a. we can never have knowledge. b. the three elements of the tripartite analysis can be reduced to two conditions. c. the tripartite analysis does not provide sufficient conditions for knowledge. d. knowledge does not have to be justified to be genuine.
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A. the Golden Mean B. categorical imperative C. ethical hedonism D. virtue ethics