Author Question: Facts depend upon the language used to express them. An illustration of this principle would be: ... (Read 60 times)

ghost! · **on:** Jul 15, 2018

Facts depend upon the language used to express them. An illustration of this principle would be:

a. None of these choices.
b. To say that I attended college is the same as to say that I graduated from
college.
c. To say that I am allergic to antibiotics is the same as to say that I had an
allergic reaction once to Minocycline.
d. To say that I am available is to say that I am single.

Question 2

As a parable, the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant can be interpreted to mean the following:

a. All of these choices.
b. We humans can misinterpret what we experience because our minds tend to
superimpose what is familiar upon what is unfamiliar to us.
c. All the men are blind in this story because of this habit of mind. d. The men are also blind because none can see or visualize the whole picture,
i.e., the whole elephant.