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homework 1,

explaining questions need at least 40 words each.  

please, don't answer definitions by copy and paste: it will disqualify your homework. you must rephrase the definitions.

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1. think of a word expressing a value you use very often. imagine for a second that you would not be able to use it and what would be amiss? express this in 40 words.   

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2. what is critical thinking?

3. what is it based on?

4. explain point 4. all the way down the post (underlined in blue). 

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5. Suppose that in a fit of anger Al wraps his hands around Bo's throat as if to throttle him. As a result Bo suffers a heart attack (think of cause and effect and nothing else). To answer this question keep in mind what we studied about cause and effect.

Is Al responsible for Bo's death, if the cause of Bo's death is a heart attack? Explain (keep in mind that for Al to be responsible he must have intended to kill Bo).