For Blaise Pascal, Humans

question 85

Multiple Choice

For Blaise Pascal, humans

• A) could know infinity through reason.
• B) were the summation of all things.
• C) could only understand that which is revealed to them by the Bible.
• D) were uniquely separate from the rest of the animal world.
• E) could not understand infinity, only God could.

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Definitions:

Excise Tax

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Equilibrium Price

The cost at which the amount of a good consumers want to buy matches the amount producers are willing to sell, achieving a state of equilibrium in the market.

Allocative Efficiency

A state of the economy in which production is in line with consumer preferences; every good or service is produced up to the point where the last unit provides a benefit to consumers equal to the cost of producing it.

Production Methods

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