Attacking Faulty Reasoning

The human mind is a complex machine that decides our every thought, action or feeling. It gathers all the information it can from the things we see and feel and tries to make sense of it all. Subconsciously, that’s what we're all trying to do; understand. But what happens when we can’t make sense of it all, when we come upon something we’ve never experienced before? Sometimes we just can’t make sense of things but through works of art and literature, we can see why, providing us with…

while someone who has a bit more faith will react to the appeal-to-emotion method. The first one, the appeal-to-reason method uses a rational argument, which emphasized on reason and in the scientific method, set out the evidence and the reasons for holding a point of view. This method good for the types of people who need a guide for the controversy. The second type of persuasion is the appeal to emotion. The appeal-to-emotion is based on the emotions that an individual feels. Often this can be…

1. Deductive reasoning is that process of reasoning in which one moves from the general premise to the specific one. The truth of the conclusion depends on the truth of the premises. Inductive reasoning instead is the process of reasoning that begins with the specific then moves to the general. Abductive reasoning is an explanation of some experienced or observation of events but you cannot explain the event or do not have knowledge. It can be true or may not be true. 2. 1).…

1.3 Rationality Assessing rationality is relatively difficult, to begin with, this section will thus attempt to assess and define rationality in terms of (1) the performed actions and what makes it rational and (2) what makes an agent rational. The assessment of the act and the agent though done distinctly, are connected, and thus necessary for the wholesome analysis of rationality. A rational act might be executed by an irrational agent or an irrational act might be executed by a rational agent…

thinking the wolf is attacking the sheep but there was never a wolf. One day an actual wolf came and the boy went to go warn the villagers but they never believed. At the end of the story the sheep are lost and a man tells the boy, “Nobody believes a liar even when he is telling the truth”. The Boy Who Cried Wolf relates to The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street because nobody believed one person or each other and it led to chaos. In The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street people were attacking each…

From a narratological point of view, a text may have certain stylistic indications of unreliable narration. According to Nünning, some of the most evident stylistic clues to narrative unreliability are “frequent occurrences of speaker-oriented and addressee-oriented expressions” (97). A narrator’s reliability is doubted if he/she is an obvious monologist, talking mostly about him/herself and ignoring the views of other characters. Stylistically, then, Tambu’s narrative reliability is challenged.…

Watch out for that glass sitting on the edge of the table, Oops! It does not take a rocket scientist to know you do not put anything on the edge of a table, because it will get knocked over. Critical Thinking is crucial in life in order to achieve greatness in life, academically and professionally. I believe that critical thinking is that mindset to just not be your average accept things as they are person. Furthermore, through life’s personal challenges we can be able to think in a way that is…

Critical thinking is the ability to think about any subject or problem and improve the thought of it by analyzing, and evaluating it objectively. When using critical thinking one must be able to see both sides of issue and be open to new evidence. Decisions or claims made using critical thinking should be based on facts and evidence, and not based on emotions. In the book titled “The Scientific Endeavors” critical thinking is defined as determining if a claim should be accepted or rejected…

Everything becomes forever new and completely dissimilar to anything else we have experienced. Indeed, if it were the case that there was no necessity in nature, “inferencing and reasoning concerning the operations of nature, would, from that moment, be at an end” (Hume 193: 54). However, the idea of necessity arises from the fact that we do find uniformity in nature, which results in the conjunction of similar objects that in turn…

The goal is not just to understand the standards in the abstract but to incorporate them into thinking and your life. It is important to understand the standards, so that you may incorporate them in your everyday living. Clearness: this stamen is clear. It’s a do or don’t situation. You can incorporate the standards in your life and become successful or you don’t incorporate them and would never know how to ask the right questions that needs to be ask for you to get a clear understanding.…