The Adage,"There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

question 170

Multiple Choice

The adage,"There is no such thing as a free lunch," means

• A)even people on welfare have to pay for food.
• B)the cost of living is always increasing.
• C)to get something we like, we usually have to give up another thing we like.
• D)all costs are included in the price of a product.

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Definitions:

Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin, known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and rationalism.

Monad

In Leibniz, the simple immaterial substances that are the ultimate constituents of all reality. God, the one uncreated monad, created all of the others as self-enclosed (“windowless”), predetermined entities.

Monads

In philosophy, especially in Leibniz's metaphysics, indivisible and simple entities that are the ultimate units of reality.

Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath and philosopher best known for his development of differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton and for his optimistic philosophical system.