Axiom

I have always had a passion for personal fitness, however, it was not until last year that this passion reached a true axiom point. In a pursuit to continue to improve and better myself, I found my workouts getting longer, the intensity higher, and the breaks shorter. Unfortunately, while I derived great joy from these fitness sessions, it was taking a significant toll on my body. Each day I felt more and more sore, and soon my body began to break down. I had hit the exhaustion phase of exercise…

The emergence of the Scientific Revolution in the mid 16th century featured a new emphasis on sense as early scientists began to qualify nature according to what they learned through experimentation and observation. Moreover, many have also correlated the rise of the scientific method with the growth of humanism and humanists’ emphasis on the individual and reason. However, as the Baconian method reduced the human to a series of basic and instinctual senses, the Scientific Revolution…

The intellectual standards for critical thinking are as follows: Clarity: the act or process of gaining a clearer understanding of what a person is asking or consideration of the problem to be. Accuracy: to represent something in accordance to the way it actually is. Accuracy can be evaluated by the element of Information. Accurate data, facts, observations, and experiences are needed components in reasoning in utilizing evidence to arrive at a sound conclusion. Precision: given details that…

Writers of any story or essay are hypocritical in nature. Despite upholding truth and objectivity as standards, they act in a way which inhibits the authority of either axiom. This is best seen in Janet Malcolm’s essay “The Journalist and the Murderer”, where Joe McGinniss connives his subject and paints him as a narcissistic psychopath. He disregards truth by manipulating facts to benefit his personal image of his subject. The nature of his story also allows McGinniss to disregard objectivity…

1. Part A In 1p7 Spinoza asserts that “existence belongs to the nature of substance.” He had clarified the notion of substance earlier as, “that which is in itself and is conceived through itself.” In this conceptualization of substance Spinoza primarily implies that, the conception of substance does not require reference to something else from which a substance must be created. The implication here is that, Spinoza is highlighting an internal derivative in which all the features of a substance…

Aristotelian worldview. He seeks new foundations that knowledge can be built upon and tries to accomplish this by identifying basic, indubitable axioms to derive more complex truths by. As Descartes had a background in mathematics and geometry, these tenets are proposed alike mathematical truths in that they are self-evidential. He calls these axioms ,”clear and distinct perceptions”. For the Cartesian epistemology and metaphysics to be plausible, these perceptions must be not only…

heading towards, if we do not make a difference in our consumption habits. Technological dependencies is another major theme in the movie Wall-E. Since Earth had become so polluted, the humans were forced to live in space, on the Axiom ship. The humans living on the Axiom ship became so dependent on technology that they ended up obese and lazy. Additionally, the humans had a disconnect to anything real or natural. Since technology allowed the humans to do everything at the touch of a button,…

At the time most mathematicians were trying desperately to prove Euclid 's fifth postulate as derived from other axioms. We now know that in fact this can not be done as it must be taken as an axiom to define a Euclidean space. This postulate, reformulated in modern terms, reads as “given a line and a point not on it, one can draw through the point one and only one coplanar line not intersecting the given…

The proper possession and wielding of power is essential to one’s ability to influence individuals, and as such serve as a model leader. Those who we look up to often recognize this, and utilize power to promote positivity and guide individuals to great success. However, occasionally leaders will take this use of power too far, resulting in the negative connotations that surround power today. Don Carty, a former CEO of American Airlines provides an excellent example of the proper use, but also…

human expansion across the globe. In other words, it depended on the circumstances of humans. On the other hand, the spread of agricultural life was mostly dependent on the climate, alternatives, and other factors such as location. While there are no axioms regarding the specific details of each circumstance, some changes that were likely include the redistribution of grain during climatic shifts, (as the glaciers were retreating still from the previous Ice Age) dwindling amounts of game for…