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What is the output? x = 5y = 2print(x ** y)

According to realism, anything that exists only in the mind or only so far as we perceive it, is a mere [BLANK-1], as opposed to a reality.

Philosophers such as Descartes regard the [BLANK-1] to be the thing that thinks, perceives, feels, imagines, remembers, believes, dreams, and so on.

The [BLANK-1] is the argument if mind and matter are fundamentally different substances, then one cannot affect the other, contrary to appearances.

Plato’s allegory of the cave illustrates the idea how we might mistake appearances for _______________, but also how _______________ may be hidden from us, and even why coming to know the _________________ can be painful, difficult process.  (*same term goes in all blanks*) [BLANK-1]

Descartes’s [BLANK-1] gives us reason to doubt our empirical knowledge, or knowledge based on sense experience, but it does not give us reason to doubt our a priori knowledge, or knowledge based only on reason. 

What is called “a priori knowledge” is knowledge that does NOT depend on sense experience for its [BLANK-1].

Pure Wafer, Inc., provides silicon wafer reclaim services to semiconductor manufacturers.  The company spent $51,000 on a production control system that will increase profits by $22,000 per year for the next 7 years. The annual rate of return on this investment is closest to [ror]  

The problem of mind-body interaction, or the problem of how a physical body can interact with a non-physical mind, is a problem for [BLANK-1].

The inverted spectrum argument is an argument for [BLANK-1], on which the mind cannot be reduced to anything physical because it has some non-physical properties, such as qualia or phenomenal consciousness.