Causality

Casualties of World War I On the contrary it was the armed forces of USA and the allied countries of Europe, middle East and Asian countries who were responsible for millions of civilian and armed forces causalities due to madness of Stalin and Hitlor. Following are the figures for World War I and World II. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 37 million: over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human…

The idea of free will as an illusion has become a hot topic in neuroscience, still even nearly twenty years after this article was penned, due to the controversy it attracts regarding morals and self-determination. Tom Wolfe argues, in a rather snarky tone consistently seen throughout the article, that the concept of a self is dead—much like Nietzsche’s preceding declaration that God is dead. However, the concept of self is not yet dead in neuroscience like Wolfe predicted. Rather, more…

On Being an Atheist The existence of God is an ongoing argument between the atheist and the Christian. While the atheist needs undeniable proof that there is in fact an intelligent being that is causally necessary for the existence of everything on earth, Christians argue that one hundred percent certainty may not be possible. Foreman offers four ways to approach this argument: the existence of God is the best explanation for certain effects in the world, we may need to offer more than one…

Kant attributes Hume as his inspiration to the critique of pure reason as Hume’s work motivated him to prove Hume wrong. Specifically, Kant worked against Hume’s concept of causation. Where Hume found no necessity in causation nor of causation, Kant found causation necessary in both senses- otherwise no one would be able to navigate the world. However, Kant’s critique of Hume is much more general than causation, Kant through causation is asserting the existence of synthetic a priori judgements.…

Education For Everyone Education is something that everyone should be able to have. Knowledge is not something that should be for sale. Everyone should be able to have equal opportunity. This is why there should be no cost for receiving a college education. The general argument made by Carol Roth in the article “Free Community College Isn’t Free...and it’s a Bad Idea” is that saying that college will be free when it really won’t, and it will cause more problems and evidently not solve any…

I will conduct a research to answer this question. I will first make a correlational study and then, a true experiment. Those research methods among others in psychology will help me determine any correlational or cause and effect relationship between eating breakfast and doing better in school. Hypothesis: Eating breakfast really help student improving their academic performance. Correlational Study In a correlational research, we observe without manipulating two or more naturally occurring…

Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the demonstration of an individual who takes authority in mental ward while battling the real woman in power. Randall McMurphy is admitted into the mental ward after committing crimes and pleading insane. Upon entering the ward McMurphy can already tell how vegetable like those in the ward have become. He’s a man who enjoys gambling and believes he can lighten up the mood around the ward. Nurse Ratched is the head nurse of the ward and soon realizes…

SSection 1: Causal Reasoning Passages: 1) In the first passage the writer 's uses a general causal claim –that is indirectly quoted “recent study showed that students who cram immediately before examinations usually get lower grades than those who do not.” The writer correlates the causal claim with the sentence “Well, I certainly won’t make that mistake this term!” commits an error in causal reasoning by inferring that if he/she would open a book during exam period that this would result in a…

Actual or Constructive Knowledge The first element of premises liability, of actual or constructive knowledge is not met. To meet actual or constructive knowledge a premises owner needs to have sufficient knowledge of a condition to be liable for the injuries caused by the condition if the plaintiff proves the defendant: knew that the hazard was on the floor and negligently failed to remove it; or that the hazard was on the floor so long that it should have been discovered and removed in the…

Free will is the known as the capability to decide between different potential courses of action and is a highly questioned topic in the philosophical world. Free will, also closely accompanied to the views of moral responsibility, has some philosophers reason that only actions which are free willed are justified to accept the blame of the action while other philosophers oppose this view. Baron d’Holbach views free will under the idea of Determinism, which entails that only one sequence of…