Epistemology

Jane Hawthorn is not a welcoming woman. In her youth she maintained the physique of a supermodel a body well maintained in her old age. With the warmth of an arctic snowstorm she ran an international multi-billion dollar company she was severe. Seeing her blown huge on the tv made even the biggest strongman feel small. Which is why Louis Miller was more than a little suspicious to see her sitting in his modest law office. “ I appreciate your punctuality Mr Miller. Your assistant said you would…

Probability concepts like faith, as it exists in the dim intuition, through school education, the surface of that understanding, intuition often conflicts that again with a different point of view, must be thinking more in-depth study to be able to understand. Hot Monty Hall problem, and that is one example. There is not a simple probability, long confused with so many people and academics, the more deeply ponder the problems found. Since 1990, 1991 flared up in hot to 2000, there are more…

Rene Descartes born in France in 1956 has brought many influential ideas. Among many of his ideas was that of analytical geometry. He was based on using mathematics as a foundation for knowledge and finding truth. As such, he wants to prove God’s existence by surrounding himself of ideas. He questions himself about things in doubt and clear and distinct ideas. As well, Descartes wants to clarify that being imperfect cannot produce something more perfect and that is better to know perfect than…

According to Immanuel Kant, getting rid of one’s self-imposed immaturity, along with freedom, is the key to achieving enlightenment. Voltaire believed the enlightenment was inevitable, but stressed the importance of religious acceptance. Comparatively, the two thinkers offer similar points in regardance to their individual thoughts, but differ in whether or not the enlightenment is actually inevitable. Kant begins his response to the question, “what is enlightenment?”, by writing,…

I truly feel the Seventh man has done nothing wrong. I understand the logic of survivor guilt, however truth is, he couldn’t have saved K. Stuff happens, it wasn’t his responsibility to save K, even if it was he would have potentially put himself in harm as well. I see no reason for the Seventh man to be held responsible by himself or others for K’s death. The wave killed K, not the Seventh man’s decision. It by default has nobody to claim responsibility for. It is for these reasons and prior…

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin Chapter Questions Chapter 1 – Finding Your Inner Fish 1. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. The author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 Million Years as it was a period when the transformation took place from fish to fish with limb. The fish without characteristics of…

In The Allegory of the Cave by Plato this piece analyzes how far, or rather not far mankind has come in facing the true nature of the world and it’s reality. Plato does so by comparing mankind to prisoner held captive in a cave. The men are confined and cannot move about and can only see what is in front of them, day after day the men watch images of shadows on the wall in front of them illuminated by fire. Also within the cave the men are exposed to echoes and believe the noises come from the…

Journal Article Summary Article reference Dewhurst, S. s., Thorley, C., Hammond, E. R., & Ormerod, T. C. (2011). Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions. Personality & Individual Differences, 51(1), 73-76. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.018 Purpose of the study The aim of the study was to examine the link between creativity and is prone to associative memory delusions in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) method and this was further explored…

Common sense ideology is the adoption of the dominant societies values, attitudes, and beliefs that shape the way it views reality. Common sense ideologies are based on locale. People in a rural or wilderness area will share certain beliefs about safety and protection from animals while in urban areas, people learn to cross streets safely. Common sense is a dominant idea about society and our place in it. Capitalists believe that you can succeed monetarily if you work for it hard enough which is…

Philosophy plays a significant role on examining religious claims to certainty regarding metaphysical reality because it questions the unquestionable, and challenges ideas that have been in motion for centuries. As stated in the book, Elements of Culture, by Susan Andreatta, “religions support the status quo by keeping people in line through supernatural sanctions, reliving social conflict, and providing explainations for unfortunate events.” Religions provide knowledge of the unknown, or at…