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The philosophers most influential on the postmodernists were
 
 

a. Plato and Aristotle.
  b. Descartes and Locke.
  c. Hume and Kant.
   d. Nietzsche and Heidegger.



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Scientific realism claims that
 
 

a. science should be dedicated to solving practical problems.
   b. the only reality that exists is that which is capable of being explained scientifically.
   c. the entities scientists talk about exist independently of our conceptual frameworks.
   d. scientific theories merely give us useful fictions, but not the true story about the world.




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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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