How to Think About Weird Things Critical Thinking for a New Age 8th Edition by Theodore Schick – Test Bank

Chapter 8 Relativism, Truth, and Reality

1) Everything is relative.
Answer: FALSE
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2) It’s logically impossible for everything to be relative.
Answer: FALSE
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3) If a claim’s truth implies its falsity, it cannot possibly be true.
Answer: TRUE
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4) An individual can make a statement true simply by believing it to be true.
Answer: FALSE
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5) If the majority of people in a society believe that something is true, then it is true.
Answer: FALSE
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6) Relativism always promotes tolerance.
Answer: FALSE
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7) If truth is relative, then the same statement can be both true and false.
Answer: TRUE
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8) Each person belongs to only one society.
Answer: FALSE
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9) If all observation were theory laden, we would never observe anything new.
Answer: TRUE
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10) There is an external reality that is independent of our representation of it.
Answer: TRUE
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11) The world can accurately be represented in only one way.
Answer: FALSE
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