Identify any fallacies in the following passage."You think drilling is less risky? I doubt it. That's just oil industry propaganda."

What will be an ideal response?


Ad hominem, genetic fallacy.

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Dworkin writes, "It is difficult to find enough product value in most people's lives to suppose that they have meaning through their impact." Do you agree? What does Dworkin see as an alternative way that a life can have meaning? Explain.

What will be an ideal response?

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INSTRUCTIONS: Use an ordinary truth table to answer the following problems. Construct the truth table as per the instructions in the textbook. Given the pair of statements: (H • J) ? (N • J) and (N ? H) ? ? J These statements are:

A) Contradictory. B) Valid. C) Logically equivalent. D) Consistent. E) Inconsistent.

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J. Gay-Williams argues that there are no good moral arguments for not allowing patient-requested euthanasia

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A robust ____________ demands that empirical demonstration should pervade scientific thinking

(a) overconfidence (b) lack of confidence (c) skepticism (d) cynicism (e) emotionality

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