,How to Think About Weird Things, 8e (Schick)
Chapter 2 The Possibility of the Impossible
1) It is logically possible for a triangle to not have three interior angles.
Answer: FALSE
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2) It is logically possible for pigs to fly.
Answer: TRUE
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3) Einstein's theory of relativity provides a way of looking at the universe that makes it both
logically and physically possible for the future to exist now.
Answer: TRUE
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4) Accepting a belief in precognition seems to require rejecting a belief in free will.
Answer: TRUE
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5) Just because something is logically or physically possible doesn't mean that it will ever be
actual.
Answer: TRUE
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6) If you can't explain something, that means it's supernatural.
Answer: FALSE
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7) The laws of science do not have to obey the laws of logic.
Answer: FALSE
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8) If something is causally possible, then it's logically possible.
Answer: TRUE
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9) If something is logically possible, then it's causally possible.
Answer: FALSE
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10) An opponent's inability to disprove a conclusion is proof of the conclusion's correctness.
Answer: FALSE
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17) Without the laws of thought, communication would be impossible.
Answer: TRUE
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18) If something is technologically impossible, it violates a law of nature.
Answer: FALSE
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19) A study of logic reveals that
A) anything is possible.
B) everything is impossible.
C) there are some things that can't possibly be false.
D) there are some things that are both logically possible and logically impossible.
Answer: C
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