Let's Check on Whether You Are Rationally Ignorant

question 157

Multiple Choice

Let's check on whether you are rationally ignorant. Which of the following four items is the smallest in terms of government expenditure?

• A) Social Security
• B) welfare
• C) foreign aid
• D) health care

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Definitions:

Universal Generalization

A logical operation that infers a general statement from specific cases, asserting that a property or relation holds for all members of a certain category.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule that infers from the truth of a universally quantified statement about all members of a domain, the truth of that statement about any specific member.

Quantifier Negation

The process of applying negation to a statement that contains a quantifier, altering its scope and possibly changing the quantifier type (for example, from universal to existential).

Existential Generalization

A logical operation that infers the existence of at least one object in a domain that satisfies a given proposition.