Logic gate

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…

a contemporary context it becomes easier to understand the opposing views and to make decisions about truth based upon them. Leibniz and Hume have two very different ideas when it comes to truth and knowledge. As a radical thinker, Leibniz uses logic and identity statements to build his claim for the existence of truth and knowledge. Hume, on the other hand is an empirical thinker, who believes that all knowledge comes from sense experience. By using these differing methods of thinking,…

Critical Reasoning: The Battle of Trenton SSG Donald Harper SLC Class# 15-001 Abstract This critical reasoning paper is about the Battle of Trenton. I will explain a little bit about the Revolutionary War in which the battle was fought. After, I will talk about the battle itself and what happened during. I will tell you about the plans and strategies of each side and finally the outcome. These will all be facts I have gathered and my references will be listed at the end. After the references,…

In the mid-20th century, a renowned philosopher H.J. McCloskey wrote an attention-grabbing article called “On being and Atheist”. In McCloskey article, he argues on how the existences of God fails to be proven or sustained. The author argues that there is insufficient arguments to prove a theist belief while accrediting an atheistic point of view. The following essay is a response to McCloskey article from a different angle. The Cumulative case that is presents in the article and argued against…

In Hilary Putnam's "Brains in a Vat" theory, he argues against ontological, external-world skepticism. However, his arguments seem very unconvincing in some places. In this paper I will go over Putnam's "Brains in a Vat" theory and then I will specify where I think Putnam's arguments are not sufficient enough to satisfy myself. Before I present my criticism, I will briefly summarize Putnam's argument. Consider an ant crawling on a beach that accidentally outlines a picture of Winston…