Logic

Empirical information regarding the world is gathered by use of inductive reasoning. This inductive reasoning is defined, not with validity like deductive reasoning , but with the likelihood of the conclusion occurring (Béziau, 2005). In other words, inductive arguments gather from instances of evidence to formulate the likelihood of the occurrence of a conclusion that is much larger in scope than the body of evidence that supports it. Consequently, inductive arguments are said to make…

In every person’s mind, positive hope is the basis that characterizes the cycle of living and fulfilling every day’s goals and plans. An individual survives the tides in today’s life with the expectation that the ensuing days shall be different and replicate the positive expectations that have not materialized. Many authors have deductively expressed their understanding on the reaction curve that defines the correlation between faith hope and imagination. By definition, imagination is the…

The article of concern here is Does Texting Affect Writing? by Michaela Cullington. The research paper examines the effects of texting on students’ academic writing. In Cullington’s findings, she concludes that texting has a minimal effect on writing. Cullington starts her argument through the introduction of texting which she then correlates to TextSpeak. Consequently, she uses the topic of TextSpeak as a bridge to voice a few concerns against her argument. Throughout her paper Cullington…

When looking at the natural sciences, we will see that doubting oneself is important in order to extend one’s knowledge. The sciences can be seen, as reliable sources because they use the scientific method and reasoning as a way of knowing, however the natural sciences are harder to control and to predict because of human irrationality and other variables that cannot be controlled. Thus, doubting could be a good thing since not everything could be known for sure. In 2008, occurred the…

Richard Swinburne’s “Why God Allows Evil” tackles the concept of the Evidential Problem of Evil, justifying the existence of evil within the world we live in. He has a plethora of reasons on why God allows evil to exist, and one, in which seems to be pausing for the audience at a glance, is that he believes that the extent of suffering humans are capable is within the limits of the right God has to cause humans to suffer (Swinburne 93-94). In other words, Swinburne states that the suffering in…

Numerous would along these lines contend, that from our assessment, it is important to thusly move far from cognitivism and its attention on ethical quality as a basically certain certainty. Because of the way that G.E.Moore 's reaction to naturalism comes up short by its own particular guidelines, does this not propose that moral dialect is non-psychological and hostile to realist? Firstly, we have to consider the domain of emotivism and fundamentally A.J. Ayer– the methodology that most…

Sartre's "Absolute Freedom " is exceptionally insightful and empowering. He provides his views on why he believes that free will exists. Sartre goes on to explain that just because we are free doesn’t mean we get away with doing anything. In fact, he claims that we are responsible for every choice we make. Because of this Sartre claimed that we are “Condemned to be free.” Sartre's views may be viewed as liberating and logical, but our knowledge of the world firmly supports that we may not be as…

Chapter 6 is the first chapter thus far in Storr’s writing which has not included one of Storr’s experiences; rather, this chapter seemed to serve more as a continuation or explanation of the previous chapter. Storr delved deep into neuroscientific discussion in this chapter: he discussed the age, origin, and understood phenomena of the brain before shifting toward more theoretical discourse. Knowing that his points became increasingly complex as the chapter progressed, Storr directly addressed…

rationality with the example of small children. They claim that small children are full of spirit straight from birth, however many children never acquire rational thought, thus creating separation from one of the other 2 parts of the soul. With this logic they are able to infer that spirit is the third part of the soul. I believe that the argument that the soul can be split into three parts is completely incorrect. I believe that the soul itself is one entity that ultimately has several…

Rationalism: The Reasonable Side In epistemology, there are two sides one could take, rationalism or empiricism. There are distinct differences between these two ideas. (Empiricism vs. Rationalism Video.) Often times, these ideas are seen as exact opposites. Empiricists, according to our textbook, tend to be described as a passive mind, while rationalists tend to be considered the active mind. Throughout this paper, I am going to debate for the rationalists. Through their active mind,…