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Berkeley was a rationalist
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Which of the following claims does Locke believe?
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All knowledge comes through experience.
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All experience is experience of ideas.
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All knowledge is knowledge is knowledge of ideas
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All of the above.
Questão 3
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Locke believed that our ideas are caused by a material world,
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Berkeley believed that our ideas are caused by the material world.
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According to Locke, our ideas of primary qualities correctly represent the material world
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According to Berkeley, if empiricism is correct, we could never know if our ideas correctly represent the world.
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Berkeley rejects the material world because he believes that material weath is the root of all evil.
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"Esse est percipi " means
Questão 9
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According to Berkeley,
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Ideas of primary qualities are nothing but interpretations of ideas of secondary qualities.
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The assumption that material substances exist leads to skepticism.
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Only the mental world exists.
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All of the above.
Questão 10
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According to Berkeley, what we call physical objects are nothing but bundles of ideas.
Questão 11
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According to Hume, there are two kinds of perceptions. He calls them
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rationalism and empiricism.
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impressions and ideas
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relations of ideas and matters of fact.
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primary qualities and secondary qualities.
Questão 12
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One difference between impressions and ideas is that
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ideas are copies of impressions.
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impressions are copies of ideas.
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There is no difference between the two. Both are copied from a material substratum.
Questão 13
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According to Hume, if a term cannot be traced back to an impression,
Questão 14
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Which of the following is a relation of ideas?
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Murder causes pain.
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Barking dogs bark.
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All emerelds are green.
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God loves everyone.
Questão 15
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Which of the following is a matter of fact in Hume's sense?
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All bachelors are unmarried.
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The earth is flat, not round
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All triangles have four sides.
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None of the above are matters of fact in Hume's sense.
Questão 16
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Relations of ideas concern apriori reasoning found only in philosophy while matters of fact concern the aposteriori reasoning found only in the scientific method.
Questão 17
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If a statement is knowable apriori, it can be known with certainty apart from experience, according to Hume
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According to Hume, our ideas of causality and induction can be traced back to impressions produced by the world upon our senses and to the feelings we experience.
Questão 19
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According to Hume, our ideas of causation and induction, are derived from reason alone, not experience.
Questão 20
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According to Hume, apriori claims are meaningless.
Questão 21
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Because Descartes held that the self is a thinking thing, the Cartesian View is also known as the Psychological View of personal identity.
Questão 22
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On Locke's view, personal identity consists in sameness of substance.
Questão 23
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Derek Parfit believes we can survive in a different body, even if nothing of the original body remains, even the brain.
Questão 24
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According to Parfit,
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A person can survive in a different body if that person's brain is transplanted into a different body.
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A person can survive in a different body if half that person's brain is transplanted into a different body.
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A person can survive in a different body if both halves of that person's brain are transplanted into different bodies.
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All of the above
Questão 25
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According to Parfit, everything that matters in a person's survival can be preserved, even if half of a person's brain is transplanted into two different bodies.
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According to Parfit, personal identity is not what matters in a person's existence through time.
Questão 27
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According to Lent, the major problem with Parfit's view is
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that it ignores the soul
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that it ignores relations among mental events, such as the relation between an experience and the subsequent memory of that experience.
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that Parfit uses imaginary cases that can't possibly happen.
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All of the above
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None of the above
Questão 28
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When Lent says love is historical, he means that it goes back to ancient times.
Questão 29
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According to Parfit, one person can be identical to two persons who are not identical to each other.
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According to Hume,
Questão 31
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Both atheists and agnostics deny that God exists.
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Agnosticism regarding God's existence (or agnosticism on anything else) means that one does not know one way or the other.
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Agnosticism may be weak agnosticism, such as when I claim to be agnostic on the matter of the origin of the British monarchy. While I don't presently know, such knowledge may be available to me and I may come to know. In that case, my agnosticism is weak agnosticism.
Questão 34
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Agnosticism may be strong, such as when I insist that not only do I not know whether the number of stars in the universe is odd or even, you don't know either. Indeed, it cannot be known. This is a strong form of agnosticism.
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Theism is the belief that God exists.
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God is said to be omnipotent. That means he can make a rock so big that even he cannot lift it.
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God is said to be omniscient. That means that God is all powerful.
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God is said to be omni-benevolent. That means God is morally perfect.
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God is said to be a person. That means that God is a human.
Questão 40
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God is said to have created the world ex nihilo. That means that God created the world for no reason at all
Questão 41
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God is said to have necessary existence. That means it is impossible for God not to exist.
Questão 42
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The title of the famous work by Bertrand Russell we read in class is, "Why Atheism is True."
Questão 43
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Russell considers several definitions of the word "Christian." Which definition does Russell believe is the relevant one?
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The geographical sense of "Christian" such that a Christian is one who is a citizen of a Christian nation.
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The moral sense of "Christian" such that a Christian is one who tries to live a good life.
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Russell means "Christian" in both the geographical sense and the moral sense when he explains why he is not a Christian.
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None of the above.
Questão 44
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Russell does not believe that Jesus is God, even though he believes that Jesus is the best and wisest of men.
Questão 45
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According to Russell, it is doubtful that Jesus even existed and even if he did, we know hardly anything about him.
Questão 46
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One of the arguments for God's existence that Russell considers is the First Cause argument. Why does he reject it?
Questão 47
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Most scientists today agree with Russell that the universe might be infinitely old.
Questão 48
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Which of the following is not necessary to being a Christian in Russell's sense?
Questão 49
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Russell thinks that Jesus was not the best and wisest of men because Jesus believed in hell.
Questão 50
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Russell believes that the future of the material universe is infinite.
Questão 51
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According to Russell, we don't need to accept the design argument since we can explain why things appear to be designed, without supposing that there is an intelligent designer.
Questão 52
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One of the arguments William Lane Craig gives in favor of God's existence is the Cosmological Argument. Another name for this argument is
Questão 53
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According to Craig, the cosmological argument allows us to conclude which of the following?
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The universe has a first cause.
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Whatever cause the universe to exist could not have been material.
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The first cause must have been a person.
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All of the above.
Questão 54
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According to Craig, the evidence he presents makes belief in God's existence a logical certainty.
Questão 55
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Craig believes that if Jesus rose from the dead, there is good evidence that God exists
Questão 56
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What reason does Craig give that Jesus rose from the dead?
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Craig says that this is the kind of thing that must be accepted by faith. Faith is the only kind of reason that is possible and the only kind that is necessary.
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Craig gives historical evidence.
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Craig claims to possess photographs of Jesus.
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None of the above.
Questão 57
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According to Hitchens, the burden of proof is the on the one who affirms God's existence, not on the one who denies God's existence.
Questão 58
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According to Hitchens, in order to be successful, Craig must demonstrate that God's existence is logically certain.
Questão 59
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Another name for the teleological argument is
Questão 60
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In the ancient Greek world, including the Greek-speaking world when the New Testament was written, the word translated "faith" meant belief or conviction in the truth of anything, not just belief about religious matters.
Questão 61
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The problem of evil is an argument in favor of theism.
Questão 62
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Which attributes of God are said to generate the problem of evil?
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Omnipotence and omniscience
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Omnipotence and omnibenevolence
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Omnibenevolence and personhood
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None of the above
Questão 63
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There are many difference versions of the cosmological argument. In addition to the one William Lane Craig uses in his debate with Christopher Hitchens, Rene Descartes uses a cosmological argument based on our idea of perfection.
Questão 64
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There is only one design argument for God's existence and that has been refuted by Darwin.
Questão 65
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If it can be demonstrated that people believe that God exists because they are afraid of death, that would prove that God does not exist.
Questão 66
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According to Craig, we have historical evidence that Jesus rose from the dead
Questão 67
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An all-powerful being would be able to eliminate evil from the world and morally perfect being would want to. So there is no being who is all-powerful and morally perfect.
Questão 68
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According to Craig, if Jesus rose from the dead, we have evidence of a divine miracle, and therefore evidence of the existence of God.
Questão 69
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According to Hitchens, the god portrayed in the Bible is an immoral being.
Questão 70
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Like Russell, Hitchens doesn't think people believe in God because of the evidence.
Questão 71
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Which of the following is a not a consequentialist moral theory?
Questão 72
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Which of the following is a descriptive theory?
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ethical egoism
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deontology
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utilitarianism
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psychological egosim
Questão 73
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Mill's primary moral principle is called The Categorical Imperative
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Mill is a moral rationalist
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The reason a good will is good is because it produces happiness
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If a person does the right action because one is motivated by self-interest, the action has moral worth, according to Kant.
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If a person does the right action because one is motivated by benevolence, the action has moral worth, according to Kant.
Questão 78
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A good will in the philosophical sense, refers to the happy feeling humans experience when they do the right thing.
Questão 79
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Kant's primary moral principle is called
Questão 80
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John Stuart Mill is
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An empirist
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A hedonist
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A utilitarian
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All of the above
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None of the above
Questão 81
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one that can be detected by examining the formal of the argument:
The lamp is on, there is power in the outlet
The lamp is not on
Therefore there is no power in the outlet
You can see by the form alone it is invalid
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can be detected only by examining the content of an argument
The Brooklyn bridge is made of atoms
Atoms are invisible
Therefore the Brooklyn bridge is invisible
Questão 82
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An Informal Fallacy
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s one that can be detected by examining the formal of the argument:
The lamp is on, there is power in the outlet
The lamp is not on
Therefore there is no power in the outlet
You can see by the form alone it is invalid
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can be detected only by examining the content of an argument
The Brooklyn bridge is made of atoms
Atoms are invisible
Therefore the Brooklyn bridge is invisible
Questão 83
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A False Cause fallacy
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is committed when a writer/speaker attempts to refute another's argument by attacking the person rather than the argument.
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occurs when a writer/speaker makes an appeal to pity to get a postion accepted.
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The fallacy that occurs when one draws a conclusion that X caused Y (or x causes y) from the fact that x and y are correlated
Correlation does not mean causation
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draws a conclusion about an entire group based on a non-representative sample.
Questão 84
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Limaba claims the rich pay too much in taxes.
His argument is invalid because he is rich.
This is an example of what type of fallacy?
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Hasty Generalization
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Ad Hominem
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Appeal to ignorance
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Straw Man
Questão 85
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occurs when a writer/speaker makes an appeal to pity to get a postion accepted.
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The fallacy of drawing a conclusion about an entire group based on a non-representative sample.
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occurs when one draws a conclusion that X caused Y (or x causes y) from the fact that x and y are correlated
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The Fallacy of distorting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack
Questão 86
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Global warming is a myth. Ohio did not have a single day in the 90's all August.
Is an example of:
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Straw Man
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Argumentum to populum
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Hasty Generalization
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Begging the question
Questão 87
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Appeal to ignorance occurs whenever a definite conclusion is drawn about a thing from premises that state that nothing has been proven about that thing.
Questão 88
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Straw Man is A fav device of the propagandist and the advertiser
Questão 89
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Argumentum to populum is when an argument begs the question if it assumes what the argument tries to prove
Questão 90
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An example of Begging the question would be:
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Some triangles are obtuse
Whatever is obtuse is ignorant
Therefore, some triangles are ignorant
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"to allow complete, unfettered freedom of speech it is advantageous to the interest of the state. For it is clearly helpful of the community to have each indv. Freely express his or her own point of view."
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The few, the proud, the marines
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Someone argues atheism is true, this means they know that god does not exist. In order to know that he would have to know everything that does exist and know that God is not one of those. So, in order to know atheism is true, one most be omniscient. In order to be so, one must be god. So atheism is self-contradictory.
Questão 91
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An example of a Complex question would be "have you stopped beating your wife?"
Questão 92
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presupposes an affirmative answer to an unmasked question.
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Occurs whenever a word or a phrase is used in at least two distinct sense in a single argument
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The fallacy of sidetracking the argument from the issue under consideration to a completely different issue
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occurs when one attempts to win popular assent to a conclusion by arousing enthusiasm in the masses
Questão 93
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The fallacy of sidetracking the argument from the issue under consideration to a completely different issue is:
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Equivocation
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Begging the question
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Argumentum to populum
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None of the above