Informal logic

In the article On Being an Atheist H.J. McCloskey attempts to explain to us the “grounds upon which theists base their belief in God, of the inadequacy of these grounds and why Atheists believe that there is no God.” (p. 62) Throughout the article, McCloskey attempts to use these three proofs, the cosmological proof, the teleological proof, and the argument from design, to explain why theists are incorrect to believe in God. Although McCloskey has made a very strong case, he was not able to…

On November 1, 2016, you were assigned a project to make minor revisions to Standard Procedure 001:48:1, Disposition of Authority Property. Following the assignment of the project, you were instructed by me to: • Correct language errors, if any, in the published document On November 18, 2016, you submitted a draft procedure to me with the language error corrections you were recommending. The approximately 15 one-word recommendations you made included the following errors: • “Maintains an…

There are going to be instances in our lifetime where we will be in an argument. To a certain extent our opinions do matter but we need to separate facts from emotions. Many of our arguments can be true or false on some proclamations but we should be prepared for any counterargument. Logical fallacies can make your claims weak and untrustworthy which is one of the reason to avoid using them. Having strong arguments with evidence and limited bold statements will help your readers stay onboard…

Markus Fleenor [Upload on the Assignments Page as an attachment ] The test covers both the material in the text book as well as the Instructor’s Comments. Always give specific, historical examples to justify your arguments. Read and follow the directions for each question carefully. 1. Matching: _D__ Eugene V. Debs a. IWW songwriter and martyr __E_ Joyce Miller b. Founder of the United Farm Workers __F_ Samuel Gompers c. President of the UAW __A_ Joe Hill…

If you want to distinguish the truth from a lie, you need to use your critical thinking skills. But what exactly is critical thinking? Critical thinking is a calculated thought process that helps you use reasoning and logic and a conclusion about an issue or idea. You analyze it to help you present evidence to support your ideas, rather than accepting your personal reasoning as sufficient proof. Critical thinking allows you to dig under the surface to understand and articulate a subject or…

Unit four seminar covered dissenting opinions and utility of the Bluebook. Dissenting opinions are purposeful and worth reading. This is because the law is not static; it changes with the evolution of society. Therefore what might be a minority opinion today may become a majority opinion in the future. The remainder of the class was spent lecturing on the utility of the Bluebook, which provides all of the rules for a systematic citation form for legal sources. I will follow that order in…

Week 7 essay Paper by J A Robinson The paper from J.A Robinson presents a formulation of first order logic, which is designed to use as an instrument for computer theorem proving program. There have other first order logic based theorem but they are mostly used for other purposes. Inference principles needs only to be sound and effective. The paper provides an inference principle called resolution principle which not human oriented but machine oriented. The formalism used in this paper in not…

Logical positivists contended that what makes a hypothesis meaningful is that it is testable. Quine believed that you cannot test a single hypothesis in isolation and redefined the Quine-Duhem Thesis to claim, “Any seemingly disconfirming observational evidence can always be accommodated to any theory.” (Klee 65) The philosophy of science is mainly apprehensive with the methods, predictions, and conclusions of science. Today, a hypothesis is generally thought by scientists to be a law or theory…

Though innumerable philosophers over the centuries have ruminated on humanity’s inability to grasp absolute truths or genuine objectivity with regard to the world, the famous 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was the first to give the concept a name: perspectivism. Perspectivism is the belief that all conceptions of the world are from discrete individual perspectives, and that a categorical truth is impossible to arrive at since all perspectives can claim equal validity in the…

at this video. Perhaps you’ve been disappointed by news coverage or even been angry with reporters. You might feel obligated to happily agree to the point of laughter with the way that reporters are portrayed in this video. However, it is a jump in logic. Just because you agree that reporters are frustrating people, it doesn’t support the idea that you should laugh. But whether or not it is being used well, the use of Pathos tends to work on most…