Pruss’s argument centers on the question of weather the fetus is a person
a. True
b. False
ANS: False
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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. While there is no technology to reduce CO2 from a car's exhaust, we can make cars pollute less by making them
more fuel efficient. By using today's best technology, car makers could dramatically increase the fuel economy of their cars and trucks. In fact, off-the-shelf technology can change the nation's best selling SUV, the Ford Explorer, from a 19 mpg gas guzzler to an efficient 34 mpg vehicle. If we are to make any progress in slowing global warming, we must make our cars go farther on a gallon of gas. Sierra Club, "Global Warming Solutions" A) Argument; conclusion: While there is no technology ... more fuel efficient. B) Nonargument. C) Argument; conclusion: In fact, off-the-shelf technology ... 34 mpg vehicle. D) Argument; conclusion: By using today's best technology ... cars and trucks. E) Argument; conclusion: If we are to make any progress ... a gallon of gas.
Ethical relativism is the view that:
A. whether an act is right can never be known. B. the rightness of an act is relative to the amount of goodness it produces. C. no acts are really right or wrong. D. the rightness of an act depends upon the society in which it is performed. E. None of the above
According to the ____ theory of truth a statement is true if it is useful to believe
a. pragmatic b. coherence c. foundationalist d. correspondence
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. According to a teleological explanation, giraffes have long necks because of natural selection and mutation. 2. According to a teleological explanation, giraffes have long necks so that they can reach high branches. 3. To Aristotle, virtue means acting with excellence. 4. Aristotle's virtue theory says that there are three kinds of virtues: one that is in deficiency, one that is just right, and one that is in excess. 5. For Aristotle, we are morally good if we are capable of choosing the mean between extremes.