Logic

and "Mr. Kumar... the first avowed atheist [he] ever met." (Martel 25). It is clear that Thomas's "intellectual endeavors" are similar to Pi's respect for Mr. Kumar while both are still very religious. As proved by these similar beliefs, Aquinas’s logic is well represented in Life of…

Although Aristotle is well known for the work he has accomplished, his work toward The Principle of Non-contradiction is not correct, and could be proven wrong in many different ways. Aristotle states that the human race would not be able to comprehend studies, such as Science, Mathematics, etcetera if it wasn’t for The Principle of Non-contradiction, and that can be proven wrong. And hopefully after when all is done, it’ll be proven that Aristotle is wrong. In Aristotle 's early life (Age 17)…

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.” By Richard Courant. Mathematics is not just a mere subject which only consists of numbers but a universal language. Mathematics can be defined as “the study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes and properties, and the logical operations by which…

In this essay I will be outlining and critically assessing Kripke’s ‘Humphrey’ objection to Counterpart Theory. To first understand the ‘Humphrey’ objection, it is crucial to understand the Counterpart Theory. This theory has the core belief of individuals only existing in a specific world, however they have similar counterparts in other possible worlds. Kripke’s ‘Humphrey’ objection is in light of the Counterpart Theory. Stephen Yablo’s Aboutness helps illustrate issues which arise in the…

we expect people to read our minds. We think "they should know what we want! If I have to tell them, then I don't want it!" We make an assumption others see the world the same way we do, and want the same things that we do. Then the next jump in logic is to assume that they know what we want, but they are withholding it from us for some reason! Do you see how confusing this gets? Do you always agree with others, and have a similar view of the world? Is it rational to expect that someone who…

I've already seen my goals and my vocabulary to answer this lesson question. How can I write an effective argument for or against using planned fires to protect wild areas? To answer this lesson question, I begin by learning about the writing process. The first step in the writing process pre-writing, in which you'll plan out how to write a convincing argument about the best way to protect wild areas. As part of the pre-writing stage, I'll investigate this topic and form a claim. First I want to…

14292768 Word Count: 1070 Error Theory Versus the World Among many relevant philosophical theories are objectivism, relativism, and nihilism. Unlike the other two theories, nihilism states that no moral claims are true. In support of this theory, nihilism strongly depends on error theory to back up its claims. Error theory states that moral claims are simply a means to describing the moral features of everything going on around the world; however, the theory also claims that there are no moral…

Socrates’ two premises support his initially stated conclusion that death and life are cyclical opposites or, in other words, that they flow back and forth as states of existence. He concludes, “…living people come to be from nowhere other than from the dead” (Plato, 2014, p. 58, 70d). While Socrates’ argument is valid, his first premise is problematic. It is within this premise that he assumes fundamentally dissimilar relationships between fundamentally dissimilar entities are analogous. When…

In the movie 12 Angry Men, a young man is on trial for murdering his father. The movie opens at a point in the trial after the witnesses have testified, and the prosecution and defense have had their say. It is now up to the twelve men of the jury to decide the fate of the defendant. In this particular case if he is found guilty, he will be sentenced to death by the electric chair. The jury go in to the jury room, sit down, and take a vote. The defendant is found guilty eleven to one, but since…

In my book Four-dimensionalism (chapter 4, section 9), I argued that four- dimensionalism – the doctrine of temporal parts – follows from several other premises, chief among which is the premise that existence is never vague. Kathrin Koslicki (preceding article) claims that the argument fails since its crucial premise is unsupported, and is dialectically inappropriate to assume in the context of arguing for four-dimensionalism. Since the relationship between four-dimensionalism and the…