Cold Hard Truth

you’re being tested. Mill believes that lying is the worst one could do. He sees lying as a weakness because it shows that you are unable to tell the truth. One lie can create a series of actions in which another lie will be needed to cover for the original lie. At that point it would be an endless stream of lies to cover just one lie up when the truth could have been told originally. Also, cheating on a test would be anti of some higher pleasures, which Mill focuses heavily on. Pleasures such…

Shadows and Truth Plato uses the visual of the cave to help people realize how their senses deceive them and give them a belief system but not knowledge. The images seen on the walls of the cave look like and sound like anything that performers want to portray. This isn’t knowledge. This is a gimmick used by people of authority to control, and maintain people to their liking. It’s an enticing of the senses. So what happens when we look beyond the shadows? The description of the cave and…

some if they haven’t seen it or experienced than it either isn 't real or it never happened, once again it circles back to subjectivity or objectivity. Are you willing to say something is certain or absolute just because someone tells you that “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images, that is certain” or do you take on blind faith and the fact that you haven 't experienced anything else before (Plato 3). Is that all life and knowledge can be what is set right in front…

In Michael Huemer’s essay, “The Lure of Radical Skepticism,” he expands on the idea that ‘we cannot know anything,’ by outlining four different arguments supporting the claim. (Huemer 47-57) René Descartes holds the opposite opinion, which he discusses in ‘Meditations One and Two.’ While there is validity to both sides of the argument, Huemer’s essay proves to be more reliable after dissecting Descartes’ concepts of existence. Huemer proposes that no one can know anything about the external…

speaks of ethical truth, it 's Associate in nursing interpretation of truth school of thought and/or system of morals that act as a typical ideal. once ethical truth is expressed as being relative, it 's sent in a very cultural context, not a private one. Ethical Einstein 's theory of relativity is, during this paper, to be thought-about specifically through a social as a gaggle of individuals perception. Swing aside individual ethical beliefs and concentrating on the side of ethical truth and…

What’s the relationship between theories and the world to which theories meant to apply? Are there ultimate truth which can be obtained through a series of scientific validation and falsification? Is critical relativism appropriate for scientific research (marketing or consumer research in particular)? Those are some critical questions raised by this week’s readings that centered on the topic of rationality and relativism. Several authors provide different insights on answering those above…

for what would keep a community alive. That our morals do not approach an objective truth, but are merely adaptively fit. This lends to an argument that since we are not evolved to know the truth, our morals may be totally invalid, and so we cannot rationally believe them. This argument that we cannot trust our morals is flawed. The debunker claims that since evolution selects for fitness rather than moral truth, we cannot trust our moral beliefs to be objective, and that we must require a Good…

false and needs to be challenged in order for truth to be found. We also must consider what valuable means. If being valuable simply means furthering our understanding of truth, then true opinion is more valuable than knowledge in this case. With this scenario in mind, we must revise our hypothesis. In order for knowledge to be more valuable than true opinion, knowledge must be an absolute truth. However, there are few things we can call an absolute truth as evidenced in the geocentric theory…

earth, because they were not there to gather the evidence and facts. But it is by a collection of this assumption that makes the science community an invalid representation as to how shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. Science groups have a hard time explaining life events and so therefore it would be unreliable. One’s personal knowledge would be…

One day a little schoolboy forgot to do his homework and was scared to tell his teacher the truth. The teacher was taking up the homework and asked the child, “Where is your homework?” Instead of telling his teacher that he did not have the homework completed and accepting responsibility for his actions, the child replied, “My dog ate my homework.” This specific lie is something that has been used as an excuse from school children for years on end to avoid the consequences that come with…