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Vaughn - Concise Guide to Critical Thinking - Chapter 11 Student Quiz
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The standard moral argument is a mixture of...
Statements and queries
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Moral and nonmoral statements
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Deductive and inductive premises
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The best approach to identifying implicit premises is to treat moral arguments as...
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Nonmoral statements
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Theories
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We can evaluate a moral premise by...
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Referring to the nonmoral premise
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Evaluating the conclusion
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Rewording the nonmoral premise
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A moral theory tries to explain...
A moral agenda's motivations
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What society defines as acceptable
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What people believe
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What makes an action right or what makes a person good
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Considered moral judgments are...
Those moral judgments that are endorsed by conscience
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Those moral judgments that the majority of people accept
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Those moral judgments that we accept after we reason about them carefully
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Those moral judgments that we accept because of our upbringing
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The work of building a plausible worldview will always involve...
Eliminating premises
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Eliminating inconsistencies
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Tolerating inconsistencies
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Rejecting other worldviews
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Subjective relativism implies that each person is...
Morally responsible
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Conscientious
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Tolerant
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Morally infallible
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Social relativism implies that it is impossible to disagree with one's culture and be...
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Right
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Fallible
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Understood
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A set of beliefs and theories that help us make sense of a wide range of issues in life is known as a...
Theory
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Premise
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Morality
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