Logical positivism

I think the spirt of inquiry means the essential qualities needed for inquiry. The spirit is the qualities that a person has that allows them to inquire. Without the “spirit” inquiry may be difficult or unattainable. In the book they talk about the spirit of inquiry being the attitude or orientation of the participants. I think in order to have this attitude or orientation; you must also have these essential qualities. One attitude and beliefs I believe is basic to the spirt of inquiry is being…

Creditability changes perception. In today’s society people will listen and believe anything as long as they trust the source. In Josh Fox’s Gasland he builds this trust and creditability through the use of pathos. Viewers sympathize with the small town man from Pennsylvania whose peaceful lifestyle has been invaded by the negative effects of fracking. The interactions with fellow victims seem real and genuine; the audience begins to feel remorse for the health and well being of those affected.…

WaPack Labs is located in New Boston, New Hampshire and is a cyber intelligence company that is a threat and intelligence analysis firm that services different clients around a global market. WaPack Labs provides early warning detections through data gathering, surveillance operations, and detailed analysis of a global market. The information is then shared with their clients; therefore, the clients can take appropriate actions to handle the cyber threat that are facing. The duties and…

of God. Can God create a stone that is too heavy for him to lift? “if he can perform the feat, then let us suppose that he does… Then we are supposing God to have brought about a situation in which he has made something he cannot [lift],” a clear logical impossibility. If we eschew with describing God in terms of power then we can discuss that God only lacks the power, skill, opportunity, determination or moral capability to perform the act. It does not directly follow that there is some power…

social, and political lives. Our attitudes toward law and the laws that we create-define us as citizens of our society, politically, economically, and morally”(Boyd 2015). Understanding different perspectives of legal philosophy, such as natural law, positivism, legal pragmatism, and feminism will help us with answers certain questions. Moreover, the questions are whether or not, natural law is dead, as per Roger Cotterrell? Alternatively, whether or not Harfield provides the compelling reason…

What if survival meant killing and eating the flesh of one 's own camrade? Given the choice between starvation and cannibalism, how would one make a cogent decision? That is exactly what occurred in Professor Lon L. Fuller 's fictional, legal case titled, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers." The investigation explores the circumstances involving the death of a cave-explorer, Roger Whitmore. In summary, five cave-explorers were trapped in a cave after being blocked by a landslide. Fortunately…

Positivism vs naturalism 1. Is international law a law or moral code of conduct? There are two type of theory in international law, which are the Naturalism and Positivism, in the Natural law can be thought that the idea of the force of law doesn’t derive from the voice of authorities, in the other hand the positivism stated that authorities is what make law the law. The Naturalism stated that there is a bigger power than why law is the law; like morality, universal principle, religion and so…

This review is a stretch of Marcos Bernardes de Mello's work, "Theory of Legal Fact: plane of existence." In the first part, they are treated different views on the concept of legal fact, especially of Savigny and Miranda bridges. Great emphasis was given to the discussion of the legal fact classification criteria. Mello begins his presentation by approaches that considered unscientific, is the study of the cause from the consequence, or by ineffectiveness cover the wide range of existing legal…

rational, formally irrational, substantively rational and substantively irrational. According to substantive viewpoint, rationality occurs when law making and law finding reflect general norms that exist outside the contours of legal principles and logical generalizations of law itself. Law is considered to…

of the oldest theory of law that deals with human nature and sets of moral principles from god. Natural Law theorist such as, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Locke obey the laws that promote the greater good for society. The other law is Positivism; Positivism is the opposite of natural law where humans such as, the government and legislatures create the laws. Positivist theorist such as, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin believed in a society where they obey laws that were created by the public…