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Jennifer Foster illustrated a type of anxiety named for this Greek word with the example of a meat-eater who intentionally avoids learning about factory farming practices. This is the alphabetically first of two Greek words that name logics developed in a seminal 1962 book by Jaako Hintikka. In the Topics, Aristotle (-5[1])defined dialectical arguments as ones supported (-5[1])by examples of this word prefixed by “en-.” A form of this Greek word names a type of (*) modal logic concerned with the operator “script uppercase B” and contrasted with epistemic modal logic. The binary between “what is” (10[1])and “what is not” (10[1])is attributed to the “Way of” this Greek word in a fragmentary proem (10[1])by Parmenides, who contrasted this Greek word with aletheia. (10[1])For 10 points, what four-letter Greek word for popular opinion is the origin of an English word for adherence to accepted beliefs prefixed “ortho-”? ■END■ (10[2])

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