Discussion Questions I. “Faced with significant decreases in applicants, should colleges lower admis-sions requirements or contract facilities?” How do you feel about this?

2. What cases in this chapter as well as in other chapters seem to involve the vicious pendulum effect?
3. Give five examples of true contradictories and five involving contraries.
4. “Modern logic has abandoned one of Aristotle’s most basic principles: the law of the excluded middle, meaning that a statement must ‘either be true or false. In
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18. Describe an incident, possibly involving yourself, in which polarization occurred. Analyze specifically why it occurred, what might have been done to pre-vent its occurrence, and what measures
would prevent its recurrence.