Informal logic

A man under the name Friedich Nietzche wrote the paper “Twilight of the Idols” around the 1870s’ during his time of mortal breakdown. He has written many papers such as “The Gay Science”, “Thus Zarathusta”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Genealogy of Moral”. From the reading Nietzche discusses his beliefs on earth as a whole and the belief of what is around us. He begins the reading by questioning the mind of philosophers. The mind of a philosopher is meant to be confusing and difficult to understand,…

In Everything Burns: the psychology and philosophy of the Joker, author Anthony Nowicke makes an unsuccessful attempt to convince the audience that the Joker’s appeal is due to human’s instinctive desire to rebel. Nowicke uses a majority of lower level vocabulary and only circles around his main point of existentialism. By failing to establish ethos, spending more time explaining existentialism rather than providing extrinsic proofs, and losing focus Nowicke fails to rhetorically persuading…

23.The Correspondence Theory of the Truth is probably the simplest, and most intuitive theory of truth out there. P is true iff p corresponds to a fact. P is false iff, p does not correspond to any fact; So the truth ‘scorpion is venomous’ is true iff there is some fact about the world that corresponds to that statement. A truth bearer is true iff it bears a specific part of reality. There is relationship between the proposition and it’s corresponding the fact. 24. The coherence theory of…

Teenagers and kids today just want to enjoy their lives and have a good time. However, happiness and vivacity are often confused with irresponsibility and immaturity. This is a reason why the question “When do kids become adults?” is a very debatable topic among people today. People argue over the ages for driving, voting, drinking, etc. The legal age of adulthood is currently 18 years old. This age of consent should remain the same because 18 years old is a fit age for adulthood. There lies a…

The concept prime mover is a monotheistic concept developed by the philosopher and polytheist by the name of Aristotle. The prime mover concept goes into depths trying to explain the primary cause of all the movement in the universe. In his work Metaphysics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle truly believed that everything had several different explanations for its existence and that the cause of a thing can be understood in four different ways. In this paper, we will go into great depths in trying…

Answering question about the personal identity requires for us to make a certain judgements based on what a person is. According to Parfit, he proposes that people have separate the notions of identity and survival. He is wondering that what matter in survival is identity and he questions identity and survival results of certain experiments. Moreover, Parfitt also states that personal identity is not what person really value and care about and he analysis that personal identity are far ranging…

According to the semiotics theory found by Saussure, the relation between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. There is no reason why the letters produce exactly the image. Semiotics is the language expression expresses the discursive process, rather than a static structural relationships or rules. As Roland Barthes mentioned in his book “Mythologies”, “On the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other, an initial semiological dismantling…

Dexter Sommerfeldt Dr. Alexander Phil 366 11 December 2015 Vogel on the Refutation of Skepticism In the essay “The Refutation of Skepticism,” we see author Jonathon Vogel attempt to deny any skeptic claims about the external world. In its most simple form, his argument claims that to deny skepticism would be the best explanation of the material world. For slight background information, skepticism is the epistemological view that we simple lack the ability to have knowledge of a material world;…

In his book, The Joy of Pi, David Blatner, the author of fifteen books on various subjects, attempts to explain why mathematicians continue to approximate pi to this day. He believes that they continue to do so because it poses a challenge, and it is in human nature to conquer that challenge. He tries to relay this belief to his readers through a number of different methods including, a history of pi, explaining why pi is fascinating, and how pi appears in the natural world. His writing style,…

he refers to how newspapers talk about kingpins being captured, how many drugs were seized or how many people died. At first it seems as if he is making a pathos appeal because of the sensitivity of the topics, but then he segues straight back into logic saying “Apparently we’re to take from this the idea that we’re going to ‘win’ the war on drugs…Apple didn’t disappear after Steve Jobs died. Getting ‘Mr. Big’ won’t win the drug war…economist and drug policy expert Jeffrey Miron estimates that…