So...how did you find it?

BUT - WTF is a canon???

A canon is a rule/principle/law. Often, but not always, used in the context of Christianity. Apparently.

Which is the main....? .

I wrote two pages with small handwriting typically on the first question..

I felt that they could have chosen more interesting passages to read, more like the topics you see in critical thinking. Also some of the paragraphs were too long. If we wrote that in an essay or something we'd be told to cut it down.

Yeah, I agree. I would have thought a big topic would turn up such as fox hunting etc. but noooo why would we want to do that?

Or gay marriages, abortion, euthanasia, recent court cases etc.

Okay. This is what I can remember doing:

Analogy between Chinese Room and Computer because the computer doesn't understand language
Cannot be infered about the Human Mind - knowledgeable

Sport these days arouses something or other

Women aren't encouraged to think

And the one about single sex education is the only other question I remember - I can't remember the specific answers though, but I remember thinking they were easy.

More will come to me sooner....

More will come to me sooner....

No please don't, you'll scare the hell into me if i look at what you put as answers!! I can't stand to think how bad i've done if everyone else has got the same answers

Okay. This is what I can remember doing:

Analogy between Chinese Room and Computer because the computer doesn't understand language
Cannot be infered about the Human Mind - knowledgeable

Sport these days arouses something or other

Women aren't encouraged to think

And the one about single sex education is the only other question I remember - I can't remember the specific answers though, but I remember thinking they were easy.

More will come to me sooner....

I thought the human mind one was 'creative'

I said women didn't "achieve their potential." Or whatever that option was. I believed they were "thinking" as they held the aspirations but did not "achieve " them...

Geez, thinking the scores will be very low overall.

At no point did it infer that women were actively "discouraged from thinking", per sé, as it stipulated that women were permitted the "magic sphere" as an outlet for their aspirations and ideals. Rather, it seemed to suggest that they were being repressed - discouraged from turning these ideals into anything resembling a reality by the rigours of domestic life, and thus discouraged from fulfilling the potential of their aspirations. That women were correspondingly "incapable of achieving their potential" therefore struck me as being the main focus of the article.

As for the "human mind" question, it is probably possible to argue that the writer's view could not be described as "creative", inasmuch as it would be feasible to argue that it was not "flexible", either; they expect you to deduce the least plausible of a number of options. His passage certainly conveyed a belief regarding the workings of the human mind, and that belief may or may not have had some scientific grounding, but no such knowledge was cited in evidence of his beliefs. He did state categorically that 'the human mind cannot be separated from the knowledge within it' in order to refute the analogy, but he certainly didn't justify it. If my memory serves me, that is.

I found the 'Utilitarian' question easiest: the question went something like 'Which of the following ideas is not expressed in the passage?'; I answered 'Retributive punishment takes society into account', because the writer used societal consideration to characterise retributive punishment as distinct from utilitarian punishment. However, I'm beginning to think that it was deceptively unambiguous; these sorts of questions usually are