Fallacies and Appeals
... and pathos, but academic arguments rely more on logos. Yes, these arguments will call upon the writers' credibility and try to touch the audience's emotions, but there will more often than not be logical chains of reasoning supporting all claims. ...
... and pathos, but academic arguments rely more on logos. Yes, these arguments will call upon the writers' credibility and try to touch the audience's emotions, but there will more often than not be logical chains of reasoning supporting all claims. ...
Ethical Framework summaries File
... The Stoic ethical teaching is based upon two principles already developed in their physics; first, that the universe is governed by absolute law, which admits of no exceptions; and second, that the essential nature of humans is reason. Both are summed up in the famous Stoic maxim, "Live according to ...
... The Stoic ethical teaching is based upon two principles already developed in their physics; first, that the universe is governed by absolute law, which admits of no exceptions; and second, that the essential nature of humans is reason. Both are summed up in the famous Stoic maxim, "Live according to ...
- Digital Commons @ Colby
... of "moral demands"? Are we to conclude that it is morally appropriate to misuse or ignore others provided it serves one's own purposes? Our reaction to those who rape, pillage, and kill the innocent is usually outrage, condemnation, and resentment rather than pity or remorse because they have someho ...
... of "moral demands"? Are we to conclude that it is morally appropriate to misuse or ignore others provided it serves one's own purposes? Our reaction to those who rape, pillage, and kill the innocent is usually outrage, condemnation, and resentment rather than pity or remorse because they have someho ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... If air was the candidate of Anaximenes to be the basic stuff of reality, then he was still left with the problem of explaining how all things come from and return to air, and how all things are forms of air. In fact, it was his attempt to provide such an explanation, and not so much his selection of ...
... If air was the candidate of Anaximenes to be the basic stuff of reality, then he was still left with the problem of explaining how all things come from and return to air, and how all things are forms of air. In fact, it was his attempt to provide such an explanation, and not so much his selection of ...
Confucius Excerpts
... person. As to those who make a cleavage between objects and distinguish between the self and others, they are small men. That the great man can regard Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things as one body is not because he deliberately wants to do so, but because it is natural to the humane nature of his ...
... person. As to those who make a cleavage between objects and distinguish between the self and others, they are small men. That the great man can regard Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things as one body is not because he deliberately wants to do so, but because it is natural to the humane nature of his ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... search to know, for yourself, what is really true and really false…to know which beliefs are reliable. • However, in order to get certitude, we must start with certitude…it isn’t something we could mature into (traditional belief of philosophy—for example, Socrates’ wisdom) ...
... search to know, for yourself, what is really true and really false…to know which beliefs are reliable. • However, in order to get certitude, we must start with certitude…it isn’t something we could mature into (traditional belief of philosophy—for example, Socrates’ wisdom) ...
Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi
... think of as realism about the mental. Dummett, it should be emphasized, has never been under any illusions about this6and would be content to add, I think, that realism must be a view about what makes for the truth of statements when they are literally and nonreductively construed. But a more seriou ...
... think of as realism about the mental. Dummett, it should be emphasized, has never been under any illusions about this6and would be content to add, I think, that realism must be a view about what makes for the truth of statements when they are literally and nonreductively construed. But a more seriou ...
Subject and Object
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
Essay 54 Subject no. III The thesis stated in the quotation from
... The strong realism says that we address meanings – thanks to the facility of projection senses. This is the core of the Fregean semantic and Wittgenstein`s as well. If we say “The teacher of Alexander the Great” or “the founder of Lykeon”, we address the same object: Aristotle. A significant support ...
... The strong realism says that we address meanings – thanks to the facility of projection senses. This is the core of the Fregean semantic and Wittgenstein`s as well. If we say “The teacher of Alexander the Great” or “the founder of Lykeon”, we address the same object: Aristotle. A significant support ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... engaged in dialogue with conventionalism. As is often the case with such complex clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical ...
... engaged in dialogue with conventionalism. As is often the case with such complex clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical ...
Buddhist Concepts: The Oneness of Body and Mind
... in the brain and nervous system. Physical damage to the brain can have profound effects on mental and emotional functions. That one’s mental or psychological state can affect the immune system, and hence recovery from disease, is largely accepted by science today. Taken to its extreme conclusion, ho ...
... in the brain and nervous system. Physical damage to the brain can have profound effects on mental and emotional functions. That one’s mental or psychological state can affect the immune system, and hence recovery from disease, is largely accepted by science today. Taken to its extreme conclusion, ho ...
Notes
... institution? How may we prevent the rape of our children's minds? Are we so blind as not to see that we have forsaken a culture based on Christian principle? Do we see that our freedom to study the word of God could well disappear?...In short, do we concur with the apostle John that the 'whole world ...
... institution? How may we prevent the rape of our children's minds? Are we so blind as not to see that we have forsaken a culture based on Christian principle? Do we see that our freedom to study the word of God could well disappear?...In short, do we concur with the apostle John that the 'whole world ...
The Life of the Body-Heart-Mind-Spirit: Cross
... philosophers usually take for granted. Specifically, as the title of my talk suggests, I want to advance a more holistic view of education. Modern academic philosophers have tended to forget that philosophy was for the ancient Greeks, not just an intellectual exercise, but a transformative way of l ...
... philosophers usually take for granted. Specifically, as the title of my talk suggests, I want to advance a more holistic view of education. Modern academic philosophers have tended to forget that philosophy was for the ancient Greeks, not just an intellectual exercise, but a transformative way of l ...
MERSCH,Dieter–Aesthetic_Difference-On_the_
... of Picasso’s work. But it is the found objects themselves that really make the work, objects that draw much of their force from the very contingency of their discovery. It is the find of this specific seat and this specific set of handlebars with their wear and tear that allow this unique appearanc ...
... of Picasso’s work. But it is the found objects themselves that really make the work, objects that draw much of their force from the very contingency of their discovery. It is the find of this specific seat and this specific set of handlebars with their wear and tear that allow this unique appearanc ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... Type 1 Counterexamples: Manipulative Neuroscientist/Hypnotist/Brainwasher Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
... Type 1 Counterexamples: Manipulative Neuroscientist/Hypnotist/Brainwasher Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... 3. One of Socrates most famous quotes is that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Based on what you know about Socrates, what do you think he meant by this? Do you agree with this statement? ...
... 3. One of Socrates most famous quotes is that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Based on what you know about Socrates, what do you think he meant by this? Do you agree with this statement? ...
8th FY Khoo Memorial Lecture 2012—Why Radiologists Need
... Unfortunately, beliefs are the lowest currency of knowledge. A belief is not a fact, nor is it knowledge. It is a psychological state of mind, where we hold something to be true. Anyone can believe anything, even what is patently false or impossible to others. So, how do we know that a belief is tru ...
... Unfortunately, beliefs are the lowest currency of knowledge. A belief is not a fact, nor is it knowledge. It is a psychological state of mind, where we hold something to be true. Anyone can believe anything, even what is patently false or impossible to others. So, how do we know that a belief is tru ...
Q.l (b) Values - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values Q.l.(c) Ethical Relativism
... has not been determined by past events. Determinism suggests that only one course of events is possible, whicb is inconsistent with the existence of such free will. Determinists are impressed by the order in nature and the underlying principle of causation. Principle of causality is contradictory to ...
... has not been determined by past events. Determinism suggests that only one course of events is possible, whicb is inconsistent with the existence of such free will. Determinists are impressed by the order in nature and the underlying principle of causation. Principle of causality is contradictory to ...
THE MORAL ARGUMENT
... The existence of these laws presupposes the existence of a law-giver and an agent to help us achieve what we cannot achieve on our own in this world : the exact coincidence of happiness and morality, ...
... The existence of these laws presupposes the existence of a law-giver and an agent to help us achieve what we cannot achieve on our own in this world : the exact coincidence of happiness and morality, ...
Pursuing Wisdom
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
doc the problems with philosophy
... The fact of whiteness being white, can be applied to many white things. These things are participating in a common essence. Forms. Russell renames forms as universals. According to Plato the real world was a universal. Human speech habitually involves at least one universal per sentence. This is me ...
... The fact of whiteness being white, can be applied to many white things. These things are participating in a common essence. Forms. Russell renames forms as universals. According to Plato the real world was a universal. Human speech habitually involves at least one universal per sentence. This is me ...
Man as the Measure of All Things:Thoughts on Moral Perfection,
... If man embodies no easy, fixed and reliable rule by which to measure all things, to measure reality, reality will appear similarly dynamic. Locke states, “The obvious portions of Extension, that affect our Senses, carry with them into the Mind the Idea of Finite.” 4 The finite is a concept easily gr ...
... If man embodies no easy, fixed and reliable rule by which to measure all things, to measure reality, reality will appear similarly dynamic. Locke states, “The obvious portions of Extension, that affect our Senses, carry with them into the Mind the Idea of Finite.” 4 The finite is a concept easily gr ...
Dewey Experience and Philosophic Method
... these things, the processes of experiencing. It is both the planted field and the planter. Within experience there is no division between act and material or between subject and object. “Life” and “history” are equally double-barreled, in James’s sense. Life is only broken into external conditions a ...
... these things, the processes of experiencing. It is both the planted field and the planter. Within experience there is no division between act and material or between subject and object. “Life” and “history” are equally double-barreled, in James’s sense. Life is only broken into external conditions a ...
Mathematical Intuition: Poincaré, Pólya, Dewey
... We really don’t know it, as a matter of certainty! But we must believe it, if we seek to understand Nature with any hope of success. And since we do have some success in that search, our belief that Nature is subtle but not malicious is justified. This problem of inferring generalizations from speci ...
... We really don’t know it, as a matter of certainty! But we must believe it, if we seek to understand Nature with any hope of success. And since we do have some success in that search, our belief that Nature is subtle but not malicious is justified. This problem of inferring generalizations from speci ...
Argument - University of Warwick
... with a proof of God’s existence. Hence, we can conclude that God doesn’t exist. (argument) (c)If we deal with the nation’s debt quickly and decisively then we will provide the basis for a more secure economic future. (unsupported) (d)Backwards time-travel is impossible. If it were at all possible th ...
... with a proof of God’s existence. Hence, we can conclude that God doesn’t exist. (argument) (c)If we deal with the nation’s debt quickly and decisively then we will provide the basis for a more secure economic future. (unsupported) (d)Backwards time-travel is impossible. If it were at all possible th ...