As the First Modern, Systematic Skeptic, Pierre Bayle Believed That

question 17

Multiple Choice

As the first modern, systematic skeptic, Pierre Bayle believed that

• A)faith was more important than reason.
• B)all human knowledge, both scientific and religious, is flawed.
• C)silence is the only honest act a person can perform.
• D)religion was flawed and truth lay only in science.
• E)only Christians were moral beings.

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Definitions:

C≡C Stretch

A vibrational motion observed in IR spectroscopy, characteristic of the carbon-carbon triple bond stretching.

C≡N Stretch

A spectroscopic term referring to the absorption frequency characteristic of the triple bond between carbon and nitrogen atoms in nitriles, observable in infrared or Raman spectra.

IR Band

A specific frequency range within an infrared spectroscopy spectrum that corresponds to the vibration of molecular bonds, used for chemical identification.

IR Absorption

The process where a molecule absorbs infrared radiation, raising its energy level in relation to its vibrational modes.