According to Cleanthes, the World and Every Part of It

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Multiple Choice

According to Cleanthes, the world and every part of it is nothing but one great machine. "The curious adapting of means to ends, throughout all nature, resembles exactly, though it much exceeds, the productions of human contrivance; of human design, thought, wisdom, and intelligence. Since therefore the effects resemble each other, we are led to infer, by all the rules of analogy; By this argument a posteriori, and by this argument alone, do we prove at once the existence of a ..."

• A) human life-force.
• B) normative ethics.
• C) law of nature.
• D) deity.

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Definitions:

Lewis Structure

A diagram that represents the bonds between atoms and the lone pairs of electrons in a compound.

Water

A chemical compound, H2O, essential for all known forms of life, characterized by its liquid state at room temperature and its ability to dissolve many substances.

Helium

Helium is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2, known as the second lightest and second most abundant element in the observable universe, primarily used in cryogenics and as an inert gas shield in arc welding.

Lewis Structures

Diagrams that represent the valence electrons of atoms within a molecule, showing how they are bonded together.