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Week Two Reading Quiz

Week Two Reading Quiz

Q 1. Question 1 4/4 Why does Agnes Callard think it is important for us to have "devil's advocates?" Show answer choices 2. Question 2 4/4 Agnes Callard tells us that... In order to determine the truth of someone's sainthood, "the Church employed an adversarial process called a "contradictorium" in which the devil's advocate faced up against the saint's advocate (also known as "God's advocate", or, more technically, "the advocate of the cause")." What does Callard say was the job of the devil's advocate? Show answer choices 3. Question 3 4/4 What does Agnes Callard tell us about the process of Canonization in the Catholic Church? Show answer choices

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1.A good devil's advocate can help safeguard group-deliberation from the inside. The devil’s advocate defends faith and justice by being in the group but not of it: by keeping the group divided against itself, she holds a space for truth against the pressure of consensus. A devil’s advocate is, for instance, well set up to hunt for as-yet unshared information, since for her the sharing of information is never an attempt to be on the same page as other people.We cannot ask the authorities, experts, or science to do all our thinking for us. Sometimes we need to think as a group, and in principle, devil's advocates allow us to combine the goal of figuring things out together with the goal of commitment to the truth, and they do this by functioning as a check on group consensus.