Your Text Indicates Five Distinct Criteria That the So-Called Method

question 10

Multiple Choice

Your text indicates five distinct criteria that the so-called Method II arguments may use to determine the moral status of a being (such as a fetus) : 1. Being Human, 2. Being Like Human, 3. Potentiality, 4. Evolving Value, or 5. Actuality. For the following Method II claims, determine which of these five criteria is being employed.
" Because dolphin species can think and communicate, they have the same full moral status as members of the human species ."  Which Method II is assumed by this claim?

• A)Potentiality.
• B)Being like humans.
• C)Being human.
• D)Actuality.
• E)Evolving value.

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Definitions:

Open Sentence

In predicate logic, a statement with a free variable.

Variable

1. In symbolic logic, a symbol that stands for some, but any, unnamed individual thing; 2. In statistics, a trait regarded as a generic attribute that can exist in different degrees (values).

Closed Sentence

In predicate logic, a statement in which every variable is bound by a quantifier.

Variable

An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change, often used in mathematics, statistics, and scientific experiments to represent quantities or qualities that can assume different values.