Attacking Faulty Reasoning

In “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell attempts to prove to his audience that their idea behind how success is attained in the United States is considerably different than what many Americans would like to think. In America many people believe in the concept of a hard-working individual pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and earning their success through dedication and talent. Gladwell attempts to prove while individual efforts are a big role in success, theses outliers would have never been…

American Sentinel University The Use of Clinical Reasoning in Advanced Physical Assessment The advancement of medicine, complexity of diseases, and the nurses’ ability in becoming increasingly autonomous, requires nurses to be prompt in solving problems. The expectations of the health care industry and society of shortened hospital stay, the need for nurses to do more in less time, and the overall intensity of the nursing care provided to patients continues to affect how nurses think and…

extent. If it successfully dodges any failure, it is accepted as a true theory and henceforth, a justified belief. This is an inductive inference as it uses the past to predict future behaviours and serves as the justifying blocks of the Scientific reasoning. I will argue that induction cannot be a basis for justified true beliefs (Knowledge - certainty) as we haven 't come around any way for its justification. Moreover we will see how we can possibly justify the use of the scientific method…

function exceeded the linear function, it shall never do so. As anyone knowledgeable in mathematics or aware of the conclusions of the Malthusian model could tell, however, this is certainly not the case. Speculation in the absence of inductive reasoning might lead one away from discovering an imminent disaster, if one is to…

Universities throughout history have shaped the minds of university graduates and have provided them with knowledge, core skills and attributes during an age of cultural diversity and increasing internationalisation (Holowchak, 2009). Universities have been open to students in the West for eight centuries (Wallace, Schirato & Bright, 1999), however in recent decades, there is expectation that a university education prepares graduates for professional careers with generic skills and attributes…

mention any good things that Reagan did, therefore, I came to the conclusion that this was an anti-Reagan reading and that Krugman himself must have been anti-Reagan as well. The only way of knowing I used to come to this conclusion was my reasoning. My reasoning allowed me to take note of the points Krugman asserted, and from those points, analyze the meaning behind it which helped me understand and write for the purpose, value, and limitation part of the…

The author of, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” does state a central point of the essay, but it’s not as clearly presented as I presume it could be. The central point in this essay is laid out in a group of paragraphs instead of a clear cut thesis sentence. The hypothesis appears to be that the internet may chip away at someone’s capacity for concentration and contemplation. As a result, the author follows that train of thought with a potential thesis sentence; which states something along the…

1. Being Critical (Page: 213) Critical thinking is a way of thinking that does not need any form of education to do so. Critical thinking includes theory, reflection, and action based on the first two. Critical theory gives us a foundation for our critical thinking. It is our beliefs and values that our thoughts stem from. When we reflect we are taking our thoughts and beliefs and critiquing them in order to make them remain the same or change them based on when we know and what we have…

Differentiating Between Valid and Invalid Forms of Propositional Arguments Pages 164 – 175 of the textbook focuses on assessing valid forms versus invalid forms of propositional forms. It provides a brief description of what would be considered a valid argument and invalid argument. A valid argument passes the proper form test, while an invalid argument fails it. Five of the nine most used propositional arguments discusses are valid arguments. These valid forms include: the denying a disjunct,…

I came home from work one day, and found my daughter’s school interim report card on the kitchen table. She usually gets really good grades, earning nothing below a B. However, to my surprise, this time around she came home with a C in History. Now, we had just bought her a new iPhone a few months prior to this incident because, as it turns out, she had made the all A honor roll. But inevitably, as with most teenagers, she ends up dedicating a considerable amount of time on her newly…