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Which tradition places the greatest emphasis on social roles and duties? 

If you have all true premises and a true conclusion, then you must have a good/valid argument. 

Evaluate the inference for the following argument.  “There is no good evidence that discrimination does not exist in this institution, so there is discrimination in this institution.” 

Heraclitus believed fire was the ultimate substance. He did not interpret fire symbolically but instead thought of fire as the one unchanging substance. 

Buddha was a relativist because instead of diagnosing universal human problems, he recognized that each culture creates their own valid values and therefore has unique/local problems and solutions. 

I am probably a relativist if and when I use phrases like “my truth” instead of “the truth”;  “wrong to me” instead of “wrong”; “To each their own” instead of “that’s just wrong”

Soccio (your textbook author) highlights the Sophists’ most controversial claim as:

In Archetypes of Wisdom, Socrates is often contrasted with the Sophists because he:

Which of the following best distinguishes individual relativism from cultural relativism?

Which of the following best distinguishes individual relativism from cultural relativism?