"If the political prisoners have ended their hunger strike, then either their captors have agreed to their demands or the prisoners are permitted to have visitors in jail
So if it is not the case either that their captors have agreed to their demands or that the prisoners are permitted to have visitors in jail, then they have not ended their hunger strike" is a A) modus tollens B) modus ponens C) contraposition D) hypothetical syllogism E) disjunctive syllogism
C
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Which apocalyptic religious movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell?
a. Christian Science b. The Unity Church c. United Church of Religious Science d. Jehovah's Witnesses
Which one of the following is false?
A. If there are several competing explanations for something, one might be the best explanation even though it's probably false B. If there are possible explanations that we haven't considered, then even the most probable of the explanations we have considered might have a probability of less than 50% C. If a theory makes a piece of evidence more likely than a competing theory does, then after updating on the evidence, that theory should be more probable than the competing theory. D. Just because a theory is the best explanation from among the explanations that have occurred to us, it doesn't follow that it's probably true.
According to Kai Nielsen, which of the following comes first?
A. the worship of God before a concept of morality B. the chicken before the egg C. divine command before natural law D. a concept of morality before the worship of God
Which philosopher wrote a novel stressing the fact that words and reality are divorced?
a. Bertrand Russell b. C. S. Peirce c. John Dewey d. Jean Paul Sartre