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70902206 Final Paper The Dilemma of Devising a Policy for “Redo” Valvuloplasties in Recurrent Bacterial Endocarditis in Relapsing Intravenous Drug Users There has been an increasing incidence of intravenous (IV) heroin usage and overdoses in Ohio over the past 15 years. With it, hospitals in the state are seeing a substantial influx of medical complications related to IV heroin abuse. Infective endocarditis (IE) is one of the most severe, potentially life-threatening, complications for IV drug…

Question 1. Choosing between Descartes and Leibniz’s understanding of the relationship between mind and body, I would say that Leibniz offers a more satisfying theory of the mind and body interaction than Descartes. Let me explain why by understand Leibniz’s and Descartes view on mind and body. Descartes came up with a concept called Dualism of the mind and body, where he believed that there are two distinct substances; 1) matter of which the essential property fits together extended in space…

Explain with examples what is meant by moral absolutism. [25] Moral absolutism is the ethical belief that there are absolute standards against which morality can be judged, and that actions are intrinsically right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act, or the culture, time or place. Moral absolutists believe that there is a universal set of absolutes which are true for all time, in all place and all situations, and every person has an obligation to follow these absolutes. Moral…

St. Anselm of Canterbury came up with an argument which attempts to prove the existence of God by proving the apparent absurdity of the atheist opinion. Anselm contrasts the ideas of existing in the understanding and existing in reality to show that God must truly exist in reality. The earliest critic of the ontological argument is a monk from Marmoutier named Gaunilo who believed that we can use logic to prove things that we have no reason to believe to be true. Gaunilo believed that he could…

1. Continuity mistake: After chasing down Sully, the yellow Porsche is totally wrecked on the left side, until Arnie drives it away, and it's fine. 2. Continuity mistake: After Gerry gets smacked in the face by the 'broken' suspender clasp, we see the silver clasp land under the dresser. Yet, when he's moaning and lifting his leg to get onto the bed, we can actually see the clasp still intact on the front suspender that came loose, which is dangling right behind him (just look between his…

What does sense-certainty fail in achieving, and what does this failure mean for epistemology? 2000. December 9th. Sense-certainty is Hegel 's approach to proving that knowledge of the world is not a wholly passive process, he does this through a dialectic from, meaning that the argument moves as a conversation, with hegel presenting an answer to a question, in this case how one can know about the world through consciousness, and then works to show how the answer is wrong in itself, because…

regarding the classification of identity statements as either contingent or necessary. (Heide, 26 Feb.) Firstly, he renounces the common habit of speaking of necessary truths, those that could not have possibly have been false, as being equivalent to a priori truths, or those knowable without the aid of sensory experience. (Kripke 130) Secondly, he argues for a theory of identity that drastically diverges from others of the time. Kripke offers an explanation of how some identity statements, in…

A seminal philosopher across fields from epistemology to aesthetics and politics, Immanuel Kant is famous best known for his work in ethics and his famous categorical imperative. At the heart of his conception of the moral law is the question of how virtue and happiness relate. In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant describes the immortality of the soul and the ontology of a supreme being as being fundamentally unknowable through theoretical human reason, neither able to proved or disproved.…

Is It Possible to Know God from Our Limit Knowledge? The catechism of the Catholic Church begins by asking what the meaning of “believe” is. It affirms that man’s answer to God, who reveals and gives Himself to man, is faith. This provides to man the superabundant light, which man needs, to make sense of the ultimate goal of man’s life. Faith is thus the result of an encounter. God wants to reveal Himself while man has a permanent desire to seek for God in his life. Hence, that the first part…

A battlefield mercy killing is where a soldier kills someone because they are suffering, likely to die, or unlikely to have a high quality of life while they are on the battlefield. Battlefield mercy killings are illegal in almost every society and condemned as murder. Despite the illegality, evidence suggests that they happen and with some regularity but go unreported. In antiquity, abdominal injuries were fatal, even well into the 20th century abdominal injuries were fatal unless treated…