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a. The mind is identical to the brain. |
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b. The mind is dependent on the brain. |
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c. The mind is the soul. |
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d. The brain is dependent on the soul. |
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e. The mind is an immaterial substance. |
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a. Free will |
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b. The animation of the body |
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c. The decay of the corpse |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Physicalism is true. |
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b. We just "are" our minds. |
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c. We just "are" our bodies. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both A and C |
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a. There are no souls. |
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b. There are no minds. |
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c. There are no brains. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. We can "remember" things that will happen in the future. |
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b. We can remember things that we learned before we were born. |
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c. All knowledge is simply recollection. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both A and C |
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a. The parts that make up a person, including the soul, existed before the person did, and will be reused after the person dies. |
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b. The universe is inherently rational and not wasteful, so there is no reason for souls to be destroyed when the body dies. |
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c. Souls are broken down into their component parts and reassembled. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. They are non-physical entities. |
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b. They are indestructible. |
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c. They are things that exist in theory only, not in reality. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. An eternal and unchanging form |
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b. The changing world of sense experience |
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c. Universal concepts like beauty, justice, and goodness |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both A and C |
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a. Gods |
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b. Angels |
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c. Corpses |
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d. Robots |
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e. Rocks |
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a. Decomposing into dust |
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b. Losing the animating force of the body |
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c. Being dispersed like smoke |
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d. Being forgotten by the living |
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e. Returning to the world of forms |
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a. Paper |
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b. Words |
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c. Information |
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d. Pixels |
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e. Thoughts |
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a. Light |
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b. Gravity |
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c. Water |
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d. People |
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e. The sun |
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a. Beat a grand master at chess |
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b. Act happy or sad |
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c. Have qualitative experiences |
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d. Be rational |
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e. Survive death |
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a. Substance dualism |
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b. Substance physicalism |
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c. Property dualism |
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d. Property physicalism |
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e. Phenomenal dualism |
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a. A soul |
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b. An extra-empirical realm of forms |
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c. A form of the soul |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. That the harmony cannot exist prior to the existence of the lyre, but the soul clearly does. |
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b. Harmonies come in a variety of degrees, but souls do not. |
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c. Good souls are said to be harmonious and evil ones disharmonious, and if we accept Simmias' analogy, we would have to talk about harmonious and disharmonious harmonies. |
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d. The relation between the lyre and the harmony is a relationship between two physical things, but the relation between the body and the soul is not. |
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e. The soul is able to control the body, but a harmony cannot control a lyre. |
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a. Accurately report the conversations of Socrates and his friends |
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b. Create plays that could be performed by actors |
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c. Demonstrate his method of philosophical inquiry |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The soul must be immortal, because this is the simplest explanation for the cycle of rebirth. |
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b. The soul has no parts, and things with no parts cannot be destroyed. |
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c. The idea that the soul is immortal is so simple that it cannot be denied. |
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d. The soul must be immortal, because only people who are very "simple" (ignorant) argue that it is not. |
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e. The soul is simple and can be understood intuitively, and therefore no argument for its immortality is required. |
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a. A lyre |
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b. A harmony |
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c. Smoke |
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d. A body |
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e. God |
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a. A compatibilist |
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b. An incompatibilist |
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c. A determinist |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. A compatibilist |
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b. An incompatibilist |
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c. A determinist |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Intelligent |
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b. Alive |
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c. Immortal |
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d. Rational |
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e. Musical |
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a. The soul is like a lyre, and the body is like a harmony. |
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b. The body is like a lyre, and the soul is like a harmony. |
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c. The soul is like a string, and the body is like a lyre. |
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d. The body is like a string, and the soul is like a lyre. |
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e. The soul is like the sun, and the body is like the earth. |
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a. It takes place in Socrates' trial at an Athenian law court and is a comment about courage in the face of severe punishment. |
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b. It takes place in Socrates' prison cell just before he is to be executed and is illustrates courage in the face of death. |
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c. It takes place in Socrates' house in Athens just before he is arrested by soldiers and illustrates his willingness to turn himself over to authorities determined to kill him. |
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d. It takes place in an Athenian burial site and is thus about life after death. |
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e. It takes place in an Athenian marketplace, illustrating a purely biological understanding of life . |
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a. The soul might survive death, or it might not. |
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b. The is divided into good and evil "sides." |
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c. The soul exists in addition to the body. |
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d. The soul is merely an epiphenomenon of the body. |
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e. The soul is attached to the body through the brain. |
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a. Bodies exist; souls do not. |
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b. Consciousness is completely explained by physical phenomena. |
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c. The soul is a physical part of the brain. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The soul is essentially alive. |
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b. The soul is like the forms, which are immortal. |
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c. Everything comes from and returns to its opposite. |
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d. The soul existed before birth and therefore will also exist after death. |
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e. The soul is like water, which can freeze or melt or be diverted, but can never be destroyed. |
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a. Only a purely physical entity could have free will. |
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b. No purely physical entity could have free will. |
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c. Only a purely physical entity could be causally determined. |
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d. No purely physical entity could be causally determined. |
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e. Every purely physical entity is causally determined. |
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a. There is a great deal of disagreement about whether human beings have free will. |
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b. A soul is required in order to have free will. |
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c. Free will cannot be explained in purely physical terms. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. They are both indestructible. |
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b. They both have to do with knowledge. |
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c. They are both eternal. |
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d. They both exist outside of the sensible world. |
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e. They are both empirically observable. |
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a. Our "innate" knowledge might have been acquired in another life before we were born. |
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b. Even if the soul existed before birth, this does not mean it will continue to exist after death. |
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c. The soul must have been in close contact with the forms before birth in order to acquire all of the knowledge it has. |
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d. We cannot remember our existence prior to being born. |
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e. Everyone has the same knowledge from before they were born. |
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a. There is a difference between living bodies and corpses. |
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b. Consciousness cannot be explained by physical phenomena alone. |
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c. Near-death experiences provide accurate information about the afterlife, and they happen all the time. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Because if people have free will, then people must also have souls |
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b. Because free will means that people are not guided completely by outside forces |
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c. Because physicalism is logically incompatible with free will |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The soul is like a harmony. |
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b. The soul is attached to the body through the brain. |
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c. The soul exists. |
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d. The body could be immortal. |
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e. "Soul" and "consciousness" mean the same thing. |
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a. The soul theory |
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b. The body theory |
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c. The personality theory |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The atoms that make up the animal |
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b. The animal's consciousness |
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c. The continuation of the animal's life by the functional organization its atoms |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. "Person" and "Man" mean the same thing. |
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b. A person is a personality or a consciousness. |
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c. A man is personality or a consciousness. |
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d. A person is a certain functional organization of atoms. |
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e. A person is a certain body. |
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a. Fear |
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b. Trembling |
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c. Anxiety |
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d. Nihilism |
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e. Despair |
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a. Knowing what it is like to be alive |
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b. Imagining what it is like to be reincarnated |
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c. Imagining what it is like to be a cell phone or a pen |
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d. Imagining what it is like to be born |
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e. Imagining what it is like to be someone else |
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a. A soul |
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b. A body |
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c. A body that is P-functioning |
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d. A singular personality |
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e. An evolving personality |
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a. The soul could be constantly changing, while the personality stays the same. |
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b. There is no way to tell whether the soul remains constant over time. |
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c. We would not want to say that someone is the same person, if he or she has a different soul, but the same body, from one moment to the next. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Nobody believes that he himself (or she herself) will die. |
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b. Nobody believes that he or she will survive death. |
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c. Nobody believes that he or she has a soul. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Everybody is a little bit religious. |
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b. Nobody can imagine being dead. |
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c. Nobody has proof that we do not survive death. |
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d. Everybody is already both alive and dead. |
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e. Everybody can conceive of life after death. |
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a. His life is finished. |
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b. His life is just beginning. |
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c. Death is finished. |
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d. Death is terrifying. |
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e. Death is just the beginning. |
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a. Quickly |
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b. Hedonistically |
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c. Authentically |
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d. In fear |
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e. In joy |
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a. My body |
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b. A body like mine |
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c. My personality |
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d. A personality like mine |
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e. My soul |
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a. Brain death |
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b. Suspended animation |
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c. Near-death experiences |
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d. Cardiopulmonary failure |
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e. Reincarnation |
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a. Functioning in the whole brain |
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b. Functioning in the whole body |
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c. The capacity for philosophical thought |
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|
d. The capacity for speech |
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|
e. The capacity for consciousness |
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a. Qualitatively |
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|
b. Quantitatively |
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c. Numerically |
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d. Comparatively |
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e. Functionally |
|
a. His personality will cease to exist. |
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b. His soul will cease to exist. |
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|
c. His body will die. |
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d. His family will go on living without him. |
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|
e. He will have to pay for his own funeral. |
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a. How the same person could persist despite the fact that his or her atoms keep changing |
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|
b. How the same person could appear before God on the day of judgment, if the parts of his or her original body had been widely dispersed |
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|
c. How the same person could persist despite the fact that his or her personality changes considerably over a lifetime |
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|
d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. A single personality is copied into different bodies. |
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b. A single personality splits into several distinct personalities, as in schizophrenia. |
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c. Multiple personalities exist in the same body. |
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d. Multiple personalities converge to become a single personality. |
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e. Multiple personalities share the same soul. |
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a. People report this belief verbally. |
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|
b. People have inductive evidence that everybody dies. |
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|
c. People do not really believe in religious claims to the contrary. |
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|
d. People take out life insurance policies. |
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|
e. People spend a great deal of time avoiding the topic. |
|
a. The brain theory and the body theory |
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b. The personality theory and the body theory |
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|
c. The soul theory and the body theory |
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|
d. The soul theory and the personality theory |
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|
e. The personality theory and the brain theory |
|
a. Living well and living poorly |
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|
b. Really believing something and merely paying lip service to a belief |
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|
c. Living with faith and living without it |
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|
d. Both A and B |
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|
e. Both B and C |
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a. Death is painful. |
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b. Death is bad. |
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c. Everybody dies alone. |
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d. Nobody dies alone. |
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e. Nobody believes that he will die. |
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a. The soul theory is necessarily false. |
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|
b. The soul theory could be true, but it is impossible to verify. |
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|
c. The body theory is necessarily true. |
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d. The personality theory is necessarily true. |
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|
e. The soul theory is unlikely to be true. |
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a. The whole brain, including the brain stem |
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b. The higher brain |
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c. The cardiovascular system |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The heart stops beating |
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b. The blood stops circulating |
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|
c. The brain ceases to function |
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d. The lungs stop breathing |
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|
e. The digestive system stops working |
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a. Qualitatively identical |
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b. Quantitatively identical |
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c. Numerically identical |
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d. Comparatively identical |
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e. Functionally identical |
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a. The soul is simple. |
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b. The soul is immortal. |
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c. The soul is like the forms. |
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d. The soul existed before birth. |
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e. The soul can be recycled. |
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a. Death occurs when the brain stops functioning. |
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b. Death occurs when the heart stops beating. |
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c. Death occurs when B-functioning stops. |
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d. Death occurs when P-functioning stops. |
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e. Death is essentially mysterious. |
|
a. Disfiguring or removing parts of the body does not affect the identity of the person whose body it is. |
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b. One body could have multiple souls. |
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c. One can imagine waking up in a different body. |
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|
d. We have no way of knowing if someone has the same soul each time we see them. |
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e. One soul could have multiple bodies. |
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a. There is no way of surviving the complete dissolution of the body. |
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b. Identical twins are actually the same person. |
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c. Someone's personality can change completely without his or her becoming a different person. |
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d. The soul has nothing to do with personal identity. |
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e. Immortality would have to involve the continuing existence of the body. |
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a. Life is absolutely meaningless. |
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b. Existence is a philosophical problem. |
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c. Nobody believes that he or she will die. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Soul theory |
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b. Personality theory |
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c. Psychological theory |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The body theory |
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b. The soul theory |
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c. The personality theory |
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d. All of the above |
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e. None of the above |
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a. How do we identify a person at one time as that same person at another time? |
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b. How does a person come to have the identity that they do? |
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|
c. How does someone's identity as a person influence their view of whether souls exist? |
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d. Does personal identity depend on the body? |
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e. Does personal identity depend on the soul? |
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a. Death is a release from pain and suffering. |
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b. The dead are honored and remembered by their friends. |
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c. Everybody dies, so nobody is better off or worse off in the end. |
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d. In order for something to be bad for you, you need to exist. |
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e. Death is when you are rewarded for your good deeds in life. |
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a. Nonexistence cannot be bad. |
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b. It was not bad to exist prior to being born. |
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c. Death places a limit on life and gives it meaning. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. A death for which one is not prepared |
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b. A death for which one is well prepared |
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c. A death that is painless |
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d. A death that takes place at home |
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e. A death that takes place amongst one's friends |
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a. The contents of life |
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b. The narrative arc of life |
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c. The amount of good and bad in life |
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d. All of the above |
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e. None of the above |
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a. Because those friends will eventually die too |
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b. Because there are always more living people to be friends with |
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c. Because one can lose friends in many ways other than their dying |
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d. Because friendship continues even after one friend dies |
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e. Because friendship is not the most important thing in life |
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a. It allows them to do something that would ordinarily kill them with no risk attached. |
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b. It allows them to do something that is thrilling and includes a very small, but nonetheless present, risk of death. |
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c. It allows them to face the possibility of death directly. |
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d. It allows them to be completely alive and completely remove the thought of death from their minds. |
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e. It floods their nervous systems with adrenaline. |
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a. The thing one is afraid of must be bad. |
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b. There must be a non-negligible chance of the bad state of affairs happening. |
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c. There must be a certain amount of uncertainty about whether the bad thing will occur. |
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d. All of the above |
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e. B and C only |
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a. Immortality would be desirable, because there is an endless number of new experiences we could have. |
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b. Immortality would be desirable, because death is worse by comparison. |
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c. Immortality would be undesirable, because there is nothing that we can imagine doing that we would be satisfied doing for an eternity. |
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d. Immortality would be undesirable, because you would eventually experience every possible kind of suffering and discomfort. |
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e. Immortality would be undesirable, because life without a time limit would have no meaning. |
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a. Death's unpredictability |
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b. Death's necessity |
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c. Death's ubiquity |
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d. Death's unknowability |
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e. Death's variability |
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a. Because we believe that death is bad |
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b. Because we want to be like our peers who believe in souls |
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c. Because we think that having a soul means having a personality |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. The contents of one's life |
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b. The length of one's life |
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c. Life itself |
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|
d. Both B and C |
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e. None of the above |
|
a. The contents of life are intrinsically valuable. |
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b. The contents of life and life itself are intrinsically valuable. |
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c. The contents of life are instrumentally valuable. |
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d. The contents of life and life itself are instrumentally valuable. |
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e. The contents of life are intrinsically valuable and life itself is instrumentally valuable. |
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a. Whether it causes pleasure or pain |
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b. Whether it is experienced alone or in company |
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c. The time at which it occurs in a person's life history |
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d. How one chooses to interpret the event |
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e. Whether the event is deserved or not |
|
a. It amounts to a loss for the friends we leave behind. |
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b. The process of dying is sad and frightening. |
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c. It causes us to live our lives in anxiety. |
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d. It means we can no longer enjoy the good aspects of being alive. |
||
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e. It is unknowable. |
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a. To hope to survive it |
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b. To live intensely and welcome death when it comes |
||
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c. To avoid thinking about it |
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d. To live cautiously and avoid risk |
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e. To realize that it is better than a life of suffering |
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a. Late death |
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b. Early birth |
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c. Late birth |
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d. No birth at all |
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e. No death at all |
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a. Intrinsically |
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b. Extrinsically |
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c. Inherently |
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d. Comparatively |
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e. Temporarily |
|
a. They live lives of endless discovery and fascination. |
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b. They have the benefit of ancient wisdom. |
||
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c. They envy mortals for their ability to die. |
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d. They wander endlessly in pursuit of new experiences. |
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e. They spend their time happily talking and drinking. |
|
a. Because he imagines that they live without the fear of death |
||
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b. Because he imagines that they have the benefit of ancient wisdom |
||
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c. Because he imagines that they experience endless discovery and fascination |
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d. All of the above |
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e. A and C only |
|
a. The actual world is just one of many possible worlds. |
||
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b. The actual world is the only possible world. |
||
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c. The amount of pleasure and pain one experiences in life can be measured. |
||
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d. All of the above |
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e. A and C only |
|
a. Whether everybody dies alone |
||
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b. Whether it is bad never to have existed |
||
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c. Whether it is bad to live only for a short time |
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d. Whether death can be good |
||
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e. Whether death is inevitable |
|
a. Pleasure is not the only intrinsic good. |
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b. Pleasure is the only intrinsic good. |
||
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c. Pleasure is an instrumental good. |
||
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d. Pleasure is the only instrumental good. |
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e. Pleasure is not the only instrumental good. |
|
a. The neutral container theory |
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b. The modest valuable container theory |
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c. The fantastic valuable container theory |
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d. The immortal container theory |
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e. The intrinsic container theory |
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a. The neutral container theory |
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b. The fantastic valuable container theory |
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c. The modest valuable container theory |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Martin Heidegger |
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b. Jean-Paul Sartre |
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c. Michel de Montaigne |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Our symmetrical attitude toward time |
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b. Our asymmetrical attitude toward time |
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c. The fact that the future is open and the past is fixed |
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d. Both A and C |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Existentialism |
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b. Deontology |
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c. Hedonism |
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d. Physicalism |
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e. Dualism |
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a. Friends and relatives eventually "get over" the fact that you have died. |
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b. Headaches are bad for you, too, but they are not bad for you once you are dead. |
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c. A life of unbearable pain and suffering is a fate worse than death. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. Why don't we regard death as good, since it deprives us of the bad things in life? |
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b. Why should death deprive us of anything at all, since the dead experience nothing? |
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c. Why don't we regard it as bad that we were born later rather than earlier, since late birth also deprives us of the good things in life? |
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d. All of the above |
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e. A and B only |
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a. Studying philosophy is a horrible fate. |
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b. Studying philosophy requires withdrawing oneself from life and everyday concerns. |
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c. Philosophy has a great deal to teach us about death. |
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d. Both A and B |
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e. Both B and C |
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a. In order for something to be bad for you, you need to exist. |
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b. In order for something to be bad for you, you need to have existed at some time. |
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c. In order for something to be bad for you, you need to exist at the same time as that something. |
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d. All of the above |
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e. B and C only |
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a. True |
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b. Interesting |
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c. Necessary |
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d. Uninteresting |
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e. Bad |