Epistemology

Worldviews are sets of beliefs and assumptions that expresses how cultures interpret and explain their experiences. Worldviews are not expected to lead to stereotype, bias, and prejudice among health care providers. (Tiburt, J.C.2010). Worldview can also result to tensions in the clinical interactions or between patient’s population and healthcare system. According to called to care, differing worldviews ca lead to conflict which cannot be reconciled (Shelly & Miller, 2006). Worldview is equally…

Caveman logic constantly pervades our lives. Humanity believes in anything from supposed coincidences to spiritual healing without a second thought. The logic that our ancestors used has tainted our ways of thinking, and has taken us farther from evolutionary progress. We cannot exclude ourselves from being susceptible to this flawed system of thinking due to its overwhelming presence in today’s world. Caveman logic is not something that I am exempt from, having turned to it for a large portion…

Sometimes, rumors meet a critical mass of belief where people that hear the rumor believe it’s true--except for those that have strong reasons to not believe--because others around them appear to believe it. Rumors reach this point by first spreading among those that have little to no direct knowledge of the topic or a low threshold for belief in the rumor (Sunstein 390). As the number of believers increase, the rumor climbs its way from those with lower thresholds to higher thresholds. If the…

Works of philosophy eventually succumbs to the passage of time. A way of thinking can be accepted in a period of time; however, that is frivolous. In the grand scheme of things, it needs to be remembered in history; it needs to continue through countless debates without losing merit. Few have managed to overcome this adversity, but those that do left a permanent mark on humanity. One of these survivors is the most influential philosophical doctrine from the ancient Mediterranean, The Republic by…

There were many logical fallacies as well as persuasive techniques included in Elle Woods’ “Speak Up” speech. She was able to reel the court in through her humorous, yet personal story. Elle Woods came before the court to make an argument. Elle felt it was wrong to use animals to test cosmetic products. Therefore, she decided to fight for “Bruiser’s Bill”. Through the duration of her speech, she added a humorous tone by using her bad haircut/salon experience as a reason to why they should pass…

Greek Philosopher, Plato wrote a symbolic depiction of people’s perception of reality in The Allegory of the Cave. Plato believed that true knowledge can only be found though education. He also believed that the role of teachers were to guide the scholar on the road to enlightenment, not direct their paths. The role of the government was also to be questioned to ensure that it was serving the greater good of the people. Plato wasn’t afraid to challenge the status quo and provided a powerful…

In the textbook, on page 201, it says, "Today in the sciences, books are usually either texts or retrospective upon one aspect or another of the scientific life." I believe that all textbooks, articles, and anything else that scientists published are quite complicated to assume that they are readable which means they can sound good while you read them but afterwards, they are not. I, however, think that it is impossible to disagree with something you just read because it sounds good and it seem…

Well, that is a difficult problem to address, isn’t it? It is often true that we do not know what we do not know in light of the fact that we do not know it. I could be lazy and say something like, “I do not know what country is going to send humans to Mars first,’ or, ‘I do not know if extraterrestrial life exists,” but how could we know everything that we do not know if indeed we do not know it and have never known about it? If we have known it before and forgotten, it is not difficult for an…

If deception is the only way to reveal a vital truth, then the world should live without the truth. Deception is never the answer to a question you cannot answer. As a journalist, if you find yourself in the position where you feel as if you have exhausted all of your options, I believe that it is then time to keep trying because there is always a way. The way may never be easy, but any way is better than using deception as a tool for seeking the truth. Deception is a form of lying and lying is…

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