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“In a word, the disciplines are the ensemble of minute technical inventions that made it possible to increase the useful size of multiplicities by decreasing the inconveniences of the power which, in order to make them useful, must control them.” The speaker is ___.

According to our course materials on Butler, which of the following statements is FALSE?

“Today, Hawai’i suffers six and a half million tourists annually, over thirty visitors for every Native Hawaiian” (Trask 50). In the previous sentence, Trask uses the phrase “Hawai’i suffers” and says that the idea of “happy Hawaiians” is mythical. Identify FOUR reasons why she says this is so.

“Sometimes the individual will act in a thoroughly calculated manner, expressing himself in a given way solely in order to give the kind of impression to others that is likely to evoke from them a specific response he is concerned to obtain. Sometimes the individual will be calculating in his activity but be relatively unaware that this is the case.” The speaker is ___.

Why did I say that a person who believes that morality depends on God cannot claim that the Golden Rule (i.e. Treat others as you wish to be treated) is the correct moral theory?

Which of the following appears as a premise in all Cosmological Arguments?

What was the point of my burrito example in the lectures on the Ontological Argument?

At child’s 11th birthday party, eight kids were timed to see how long (in seconds) they could hold their breath in a relaxed position (event 1). After a two-minute rest, they timed themselves while jumping (event 2). The kids thought that the mean difference between their jumping and relaxed times would be zero. What are the null and alternative hypotheses for testing this claim? (Use the underscore for a subscript: H_o, use a u for mu, and use =\= for not equal to.) 

When a family experiences a crisis it is best to:

Time-out is not recommended in the text because: