Empiricists Would Agree That

question 154

Multiple Choice

Empiricists would agree that:

• A) experience can write virtually any message on the blank slate of human nature.
• B) an impulse for young mammals to play and fool around may be biologically adaptive.
• C) just as a bird is designed to fly, human beings are designed to use language.
• D) men are genetically wired to be promiscuous and women to be monogamous.

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