To Say That an Animal Has Moral Status Is to Say

question 14

Multiple Choice

To say that an animal has moral status is to say that

• A) it is alive and sentient.
• B) it is an object of direct moral consideration or concern.
• C) it is worthy of moral concern because of its relationship to others.
• D) there are no limits to the amount of suffering that can be inflicted on it.

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Definitions:

Earned

Acquired or received as a result of effort or achievement.

E Proposition

In logic, a type of categorical proposition that states no members of the subject category are part of the predicate category.

Distributed

In logic, refers to a term in a categorical proposition that is affirmed or denied of every member of the class it denotes.

Enthymeme

A rhetorical version of a syllogism missing one of the premises or the conclusion, but implied by the argument.