Analytic philosophy

priority is catering to its users by identifying who users are and creating humorous content that engages users and facilitates conversations. When asked about data tracking and the metrics employed by Monkey Pickles, Laura Green, stated that Google analytics and Facebook insight are core tools used to gather information on content reach and user…

The handy helper I choose was a video from Khan Academy. This video was about the Cartesian Coordinate System. I naturally gravitated to the Khan Academy link because I was already accustomed to the website while using it to get spun back up before this class. The Kahn Academy site contains similar math videos and you learn from watching their videos and practicing math problems that relate to the video. This particular video consists of a guy explaining math while at the same time visually…

company decides to investigate which Web Analytics tool to invest in, from simple reporting tools to advanced multi-layered analytical systems. The tendency to believe that the best systems cost vast amounts of money and offer the maximum number of features leads to bloated and over-budget implementations that ultimately hurt their adaption and utilization. Determining the appropriate feature set and budget are important to choosing the correct Web Analytics tool to fulfill the needs of the…

The solution of the Frank and Doris race problem looked to be simple at first. Although Doris speed began faster, Frank gained speed and passed her and thus seemed to be the winner of the race. After looking more closely at the problem I discovered this was not quite the case. I first sketched Frank and Doris given values onto the one Velocity-Time graph. Originally looking at this graph, it looks as if Frank passes Doris at 10 seconds, because that is when his speed becomes greater than Doris’s…

Why are there different ideas as to the meaning of happiness? The reason for this is diversity seems to be that the concept happiness grows out of an individual’s whole philosophy of life. For example, you can say having a mansion or a Ferrari or money is happiness but on the other hand having a sports car or a money or a mansion does not make other individual happy. What if you have all the riches in the world and yet still…

Wittgenstein Talking About? Early Wittgenstein seems to suggest that sentences of natural science have meaning, without being able to give meaning to the way of which we understand those sentences. This dismisses philosophy as only a tool to help clarify claims of natural science. However, he uses philosophy to come to this realization. He makes the realization that the way he explains his own findings are in fact a violation of those findings stating, “My propositions are elucidatory in this…

The verificationist theory of meaning asserts that a statement’s meaning and whether it is meaningful or not lies in its method of confirmation or disconfirmation. This is a compelling, yet inadequate, theory. In this paper I will focus on exploring and explaining how this theory proves problematic. I will claim that this theory is immediately inadequate, since many sentences have no method of verification, based purely on content. If this were the case it would mean that outside of a scientific…

words is empirical (200) by Quine’s paper. Willard V.O. Quine claims that Kant’s understanding of analytic statement should be restated: “[A] statement is analytic when it is true by virtue of meanings and independently of fact” (1). This re-statement refutes that Kant’s understanding of a priori ‘an analytic statement is true and fact to contain the meanings of the words’. Quine argues that the analytic statement cannot independently convey the meaning of the words because the concept of…

Anais, Alonso Module #3 PHI2010 1 Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. It predates written records and its origins are lost in the past. The term Hinduism refers to the collection of faiths that are believed to have originated in India, but other scholars believe that was brought to India a long ago by nomadic people. It is a polytheistic system with various gods and goddesses as well as lesser deities.…

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes offers both an a priori and an a posteriori proof of God’s existence. Until Immanuel Kant introduced his epistemology—the notion of a priori synthetic judgments—Descartes’ a priori proof was generally considered purely demonstrative and analytic. However, analyzing Descartes using Kant’s epistemological foundations, reveals that Descartes’ a priori proof was both a priori and synthetic. Specifically, the Cartesian concept of clear and…