Ambiguity

set of names of U.S. presidents. Let F be the set of names of first ladies of the U.S. Consider the following two functions pres : D→ P where pres (d) is the name of the president of the U.S. on date d (the incumbent on inauguration days, to avoid ambiguity) and: P → F where lady(p) is the name of the first lady of the U.S. during the presidency of President p. 1. Can the composition pres o lady be defined? What about lady o pres? 2. Which of the following functional inverses exist and which do…

argument leaves the reader completely convinced that he is right, while the self-serving and reprehensible realists are not only wrong but morally depraved. Why? Because he has identified and brought out into the harsh glare of the open the moral ambiguity, rhetorical ploy, and self-serving innuendo of the realists while insisting upon moral uprightness for his own interpretation of the truth. After exposing the realists for the immoral and underhanded people that they are, Walzer reveals the…

This story is really about making decisions, and a decision is a choice made from available alternatives. Stanley’s decision was based on wearing the warmest clothes he had, which was an old army overcoat and headgear. His selection presented a non-programmed decision, which is a decision made in response to a situation that is unique, is poorly defined, and largely unstructured, and has important consequences. Stanley’s decision displayed non programmed characteristics, because it was made in…

science actually cover the cruelty inside us, because we don't even noticed it we forget that we are not free. The more people live exposed to society the more people don't see how the nature or the second character change to them, it become an ambiguity in which you don't see if you are a slaved of the complexity and power of the present day society. Human beings is basically…

In the case of the Genocide of Rwanda, the government and those representing the power in the society played the most significant role in this extermination. Particularly, the ambiguity of the situation was the starting point of their informative influence. Since the massacre happened within hours after the President’s plane crash, Rwanda residents did not have time to think that the authority figures were already ordering them executing their plan (Keane, 1995). In this atmosphere of crisis,…

In his essay “Why Be a Superhero? Why be Moral?”, from the collection Superheroes and Philosophy, C. Stephen Layman explores moral ambiguity. Layman tries to get the reader to come to a conclusion on whether it is practical for them to be morally righteous or not. To do this, he brings up five reasons to be morally righteous which he either disproves or claims aren't good enough. For most of his reasons, he's right to do so. The only reason which he incorrectly disputes is his second reason,…

Full of Emptiness In today’s society there is the looming thought of absence in many things. For some it might be the absence of a parent or an education. However, in the poem “The Morning is Full,” Pablo Neruda expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season, which points to the absence of complete love in his life. Pablo Neruda is a poet from Chile who constantly expresses his feelings by describing nature, ultimately pointing at the feeling of love. "Twenty love poems and the…

passions and emotions being bad presents a good explanation behind how passions can negatively affect reason, however some proponents of stoicism neglect the possibility of the passions’ potential ability to coexist with rationality, furthermore, ambiguity engenders hesitations of the validity behind the argument. The Stoic definition of emotions is synonymously with passions, which are excessive impulses in response to objects or stimulus (Stoics, 1987). Most Stoic’s highlight that these…

Within the film Chinatown, symbols place the largest role in the aesthetics of the film. One the most prominent symbols is a broken, damaged, or imperfect lens. Gittes uses two watches to help aid him when he was tailing Mr. Mulwray. The idea behind it was that Mulwray would run it over and stop the time so Mulwray can determine when he left. The broken lens symbol was also shown when Gittes was investigating the farm involved in the government scandal, where one lens in sunglasses was broken.…

In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the use of literary elements develop the theme that decisions can have a large impact on others, Romeo’s characterization throughout the play, and the plot structure after Romeo’s banishment. First of all, despite how small some of their decisions may have seemed, dramatic irony is used to exemplify the theme that decisions can have a large impact on others. When Juliet decides to drink the vial she was given by the Friar so she will appear dead…