Certainty

Doubt and confidence are key sources of intellectual understanding and development. Doubt creates curiosity, which drives experts to understand more and research with greater depth, while confidence provides certainty of truth. But doubt also results in uncertainty and lack of confidence, which is disadvantageous in the production of knowledge. Is confidence even valuable in the production of knowledge? How confident can we be in knowledge? Does increased knowledge imply increased ignorance? Is…

participants/subjects do in fact concentrate/focus significantly better and also more accurately perform in simple cognitive tests, or in any activity that requires constant monitoring. "SiOWfa16: Science in Our World: Certainty and Controversy." SiOWfa16 Science in Our World Certainty and Controversy. Lydia A Chelli, 15 Sept. 2016. Web. 30 Oct. 2016. A study was conducted on 160 students from St. Lawrence University, to test the theory. They…

after no child left behind pass the standardized testing has not increase students achievement. Standardized testing hurts a student’s certainty, creates a multiple choice format that is ineffective, and created a multi-billion dollar industry that is worried about making money over improving standard achievement. Many standardized testing hurts a student’s certainty because the test puts too much stress on student and make them sometimes fail the test. Failing a standardized test counts half…

The legal principle upon which a case is decided on is called the ratio decidendi. With reference to cases Donoghue v Stevenson ,Tucker v News Media Ownership Ltd and Caparo Industries plc v Dickman, I will be arguing that it is better to state the ratio of a case broadly. In section I, this essay will examine the flexibility that broad rationes bring in relation to Donoghue v Stevenson. In section II I will reason how broad ratios avoid silos, with regard to the flood-gates argument. Section…

In utilitarianism, the line between pragmatism and morality is nonexistent as it asks individuals to consider themselves a part of a whole so they can act solely to benefit the larger unit. Essentially, Bentham's model determines whether an action is right or wrong based on the net amount of pleasure or pain it causes the involved parties. Furthermore, he specifies the various qualities that determine the value of the subsequent pleasure or pain, breaking them into seven categories that range…

that I must exist because I am thinking. I must have a brain or I wouldn’t be able to think, so I am alive and a thinking thing. If I couldn’t think, then I wouldn’t be living. I know I have a body because I can move my extremities. I believe with certainty that I am alive and capable of thought and have a physical body. Descartes had a method that involved treating all of your former beliefs as if they were false, which came to be known as the Method of Cartesian Doubt (Classics, 52). Descartes…

because in order to deter individuals from committing a crime there are three main components that affect deterrence. These components are celerity, certainty, and severity (Williams, 2013). Firstly celerity, the punishment needs to be given as close to the crime as possible and for the death penalty this is difficult to accomplish. Secondly, certainty is very important because everyone who commits a certain crime must receive the same punishment, but as stated by Davies (2008), we see that…

Millions of people are currently living in absolute poverty, while there are those who have the financial capacity to use their assets to acquire not essential items. Peter Singer believes that those who can afford to donate a sum of their money to poverty relief are morally required to do so. This paper will summarize Singer 's Rich and Poor and demonstrate how failing to save a drowning kid is not the same as failing to donate to poverty relief. Peter Singer argues that those who are affluent…

Again, the color black means death and that someone is going to die but another symbol that we miss with this one is that while it represents death; it also represents a certainty of it. It represents the fear and hopelessness that one feels whenever they are close to death or in their last moments. In the short story the people say that they have forgotten the origin of the lottery, the rituals that go with the lottery and…

of their certainty. In doing so, he indirectly contributes the moral development of the spectators by shaking their certainty and admiration of these figures. Indeed, this is a point that Socrates seems to suggest himself, when he compares himself to a doctor being judged by a cook in front of children (Gorgias, 521e-522a). The speeches that Socrates makes would thus act as a kind of medicine, one not as concerned with curing the adults, but with curing the youth of the false certainty they have…