The Pyrrhonian skeptics made use of equipollence, which is

a. the law of noncontradiction.
b. the suspension of judgment.
c. the use of sensory observation.
d. the balancing of reasons on both sides of an issue.


d. the balancing of reasons on both sides of an issue.

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There have been several arguments against business ethics. Which argument best supports the idea that when an organization makes money, it improves society, so business ethics are not needed?

a. If it’s legal, it is ethical. b. Profits benefit all. c. The Loyal Agent states it. d. Conflict is not unusual.

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Simon maintains that the strongest grounds for banning performance enhancing drugs is

based on a. applying current drug laws to everyone equally, and not making an exception for athletes. b. the fact that athletes are widely admired by children, and the use of drugs by athletes is likely to cause harmful drug-abuse behavior in impressionable children. c. the ideals of athletic competition. d. the serious long-term physical and psychological harm caused by the use of such drugs. e. recognition of the fact that high-level athletic competition is at most only one brief phase of an individual's life, but harms from drug use are often permanent.

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"Don't people have anything better to do than to waste their time lining up outside Barnes & Noble for days just to get the first edition of the latest Harry Potter book?" commits the fallacy of

A) begging the question B) begging the question against C) complex question D) false alternatives E) accident

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