Half-truth

Do I believe ghosts are real? Yes, I think that ghosts are real. I consider spirits as ghosts. No one can actually explain the existence of these supernatural beings, but I truly think they are in everyone's existence. It is called a spirit because it relates not to matter but to mind, soul, and feelings. Our own bodily soils are spirits and we all have a soul, so why wouldn't spirits be real? Spirits are a true part of reality that people face. We have all encountered something unique that we…

Martina James David Detmer Philosophy 221 21. March 2017 The Clifford/James Debate In 1877, William Kingdon Clifford wrote his essay “The Ethics of Belief”, in which he famously formulated evidentialism. Here is the question he poses: Is it ever morally permissible to believe a proposition on insufficient evidence, or is it ever okay to let our opinion be influenced by something other than evidence and rational argumentation? He answers the question with a resounding no, and he specifies it as…

water to the sun in our solar system is 15 million kilometers away. The Correspondence Theory takes information and attaches it to a real world comparison considered factual. Each truth is only named a truth when it is attached to something considered factual. Throughout history, the metaphysical question, of what truth and facts truly are, has been explored in all forms, relying on anything from the facts of what we already know to things considered impossible being possible by the shear fact…

Lying is done in order to prevent the truth from being found out. Personally, I am a bad liar. Moreover, I don’t like to lie about things because it leaves me with a guilty conscience afterwards. Lying is wrong because it has many dreadful consequences such as losing the trust of another person since you lied to them also it could demolish your relation with that person although there are certain cases in which lying can actually be seen as something exceptional. For example, you might want to…

Sarah Bear Mrs. Gahagan English 8 honors 10/16/14 Johnathan Anthony Burkett once said, “You know my name, not my story”. Throughout life, one would encounter many perplexing people, that put up a convincing act, but are they promoting the truth? Would one really know the accuracy of the identity they display? In “The Landlady” a story by Roald Dahl, about a bright young man, who gets drawn to a Bed and Breakfast run by a sweet, harm-free old women, or thats what he thinks... The reader…

Hume argues that we have no logical reason to believe in miracles on the basis of testimonies from those who claim to have seen a miracle. Miracles in a sense are derived from testimonies which are second-hand evidence from someone’s experience making it unreliable. No one can depend entirely on testimony as if it were to act as an immediate object of our senses since it contradicts our senses.The evidence must be greatly supported for it to be probable for belief, according to Hume. However, we…

meditation. Buddhism is constructed on the Four Noble Truths: (1) Life is pain and suffering. (2) Suffering comes from the desire for pleasure, existence, and prosperity. (3) The end of suffering can be accomplished by rejecting those desires. (4) All this is achieved by following the Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path is a set of eight interconnected elements that relieve you from life’s suffering and are as follows: (1) right knowledge ( the Four Noble Truths), (2) right intention, (3) right…

LaMont Gibson is 21 years old born and raised on the west side of Detroit, Michigan. LaMont Gibson attended Detroit Public Schools until the age of ten years old. At that time his mother thought it was best for LaMont to attend Warrendale Charter Academy , fortunately the charter was still located on the west side of Detroit but the curriculum was more advanced than DPS offered at the time. While attending Warrendale LaMont enjoyed his time in computer class and was intrigued by all the…

find the truth, is not always what’s expected and can present itself with plenty of responsibility. The story “By the Waters of Babylon” tells a tale about a young man who is the son of the priest, that decides to go on a journey to the “Dead Places” in order to find the truth about the gods. When he arrives from his journey, he now has to decide what he will do with this new found truth and how he will maintain this new responsibility. His journey to the “Dead Places”, finding the truth, and…

In a jungian perspective, why did Xavier need to kill Elijah? The differences between the two caused Xavier to grow more and more afraid of Elijah. Elijah’s shadow kept growing and nothing was going to keep it in check. His true self is shown despite the persona he puts up. Even when Elijah smiles, Xavier can tell that he is faking it. Xavier is the only person who can read Elijah and understand him. When Niska sends the letter and Xavier misunderstands the message, thinking that Niska told him…