Certainty

utilitarianism. Utilitarianism.is the ideal of the greatest happiness shared by the greatest number of people. Deterrence is a rational choice; its theory states that crime can be controlled through the use of punishments that combine the proper degrees of certainty, severity, and celerity. Deterrence believes that people choose to obey or violate the law after realizing consequences of their actions. Retribution theorists argue that punishment is justified because it is deserved. In retribution…

From personal experience, I have lost confidence in what I say in the classroom. I think that my answer may be wrong, so I tend to hold back on what I say. Many think that they will appear “uncool” if they speak with certainty. What they do not realize is that speaking with certainty gains you the respect you deserve for your…

Type two diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness requiring patient education and frequent assessments to reduce the risk of health complications. Controlling the disease requires major behavioral and lifestyle changes including: following a prescribed diet, taking oral antidiabetic medications or insulin, increasing exercise, reducing weight, and frequent blood glucose assessment. Per the American Diabetes Association (2016), diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States of…

Leibniz’s law arguments focus on how the mind and the body are known. The mind has the property of being known with certainty; we cannot doubt that our minds exist because having a mind is requisite for doubt. On the other hand, physical bodies are made known through our senses. It is possible that our senses can be deceived, thus, bodies do not have the property of being known with certainty. Minds and bodies do not share all properties in common. Therefore, minds are not identical with…

For this week’s reading, I chose the article “The Corrections of Codex Sinaiticus and the Textual Transmission of Revelation: Josef Schmid Revisited” by Peter Malik . In this article, Malik examined a previous study about the revisions made during notable transcriptions of the Book of Revelation by Josef Schmid. Malik argued that Schmid incorrectly dated the Codex Sinaiticus (a fully Greek translation of most of the Old Testament, all of the New Testament, and some extracanonical books) as being…

towards them. Moreover, Meursault devalues the beliefs followed by the chaplain and society, “yet none of his certainties was worth one strand of a woman’s hair.” This metaphor establishes the idea that the values or leap of faith that the chaplain has are not worth anything. They are not worth anything because society has developed the value. Meursault is devaluing the chaplain’s “certainties” because the existential idea becomes present. The existential idea regarding man must create his own…

division the rules are the same except that the court need not to follow its own previous decisions where this case would cause injustice to the appellant, the reason is that where human freedom is at stake the need for justice exceeds the need for certainty.- R v GOULD (1968). The high court is bound by its own previous decisions subject to the rule of Young’s case and in the criminal court cases, R v GOULD. In the high court in the sense of judges at first instance, their decisions are not…

to whether or not something is historically factual or not. It is instead their goal to see what they know is within reasonable certainty. There are many times when there simply is not enough data for anyone to say an event occurred without a doubt. The data that has been obtained must then be sorted out in hopes of discovering what took place within reasonable certainty. Many people believe that providing historical evidence is not necessary when presenting the Gospel message. While it is…

Everybody: Present guideline(s) that you found and appraise it or them using AGREE The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines was chosen and appraised by utilizing the AGREE II instrument regarding the use of aspirin in the prevention or reduction of cancer. A drafted recommendation statement was presented in October 2015, which was released by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force based upon a systematic review conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Research Affiliates…

that they will gain what they feel they are lacking. Such selfish betrayals can result in the tainting of how one is perceived by those around them, as well as how they perceive themselves, and can also affect one’s ability to restore honor and certainty. Throughout the novel, Amir choose to embark upon many betrayals in hopes of personal gain, such can be first seen when Amir and Hassan win the kite tournament in Kabul. Having spent many days trying to gain his father’s affections, Amir…