Logical possibility

Study Questions: 1. What is the difference between logical possibility and physical possibility? Logical possibility is anything that follows the laws of logic. These are laws that determine what is real, and what is not. For a situation to be logically possible, it also has to follow the law of non-contradictory. This law states that nothing can be both be at the same time and event. For example, time travelling is logically impossible because no one can be at the present and the future at the same time. This is because the future is not even existent at that time. In this way, the concepts of reality are contradicting. Physical Possibility is anything that follows the laws of science, specifically physics. This law states how physical properties are related to each other.…

Therefore, we must define omnipotence in a manner of which saves the power of the almighty. Omnipotence could be defined as that of being able to do anything logically possible that a perfect being would do. This is clearly an improvement of prior attempts to define what it means to be omnipotent, as it removes the possibility of weakness and replaces it with “correct” actions that appeal to a moral compass to steer this omnipotent being into the light of goodness. This addition to the…

“Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could…” --The Sound of Music Thus far into her song, Parmenides would have been in total agreement with Maria. The principle of “ex nihilo nihil” is quite important to his argument about the perfection of the world. It is impossible that the world could be created from nothing, since, according to Parmenides, “what is not” cannot exist. From this premise, he argues that…

In the essay “Possible Worlds: Why do Children Pretend?” by Alison Gopnik she explains her theory of counterfactual thinking and the result of that being possible worlds. Gopnik suggests that counterfactuals are the possibilities of what could have occurred in life. These counterfactuals are the cause, and the effect is the creation of possible worlds. Gopnik defines possible worlds as “the productions of hope and imagination” (163). Possible worlds are seen as the result of a counterfactual;…

carried away with the “imaginative assent” of it all, which lead her to marrying the prince and choosing communal stability. Jack Zipes’ analysis on women in fairy tales supports my hypothesis of the women always being owned by someone and choosing to be belonged by someone as they see it being the best of both possible worlds, when being independent should be the best of both possible worlds because women shouldn’t have to feel that they should always belong to someone, but that they can do…

11) The literary interpretation of possible worlds becomes useful when dealing with worlds that may potentially disrupt our conventions of our perception of an actual world. We can use the idea that our world is only one of many possible different worlds to understand and conceptualise fictional worlds that derive from the norm. In Albom’s novel, the majority of the chapters are set in heaven. As this is something not present in our actual world, we can use this underlying notion of possible…

Before a person takes part in an argument, he/she should have concrete evidence, statistics or logical reasoning to support his/her statements. This ensures that the person is providing the correct logical information. Otherwise, delivering an argument that contains an error in reasoning, which leads to a false conclusion, is known as a "logical fallacy" (Floridi 318). Such errors are not only unprofessional but also misleading and unethical. For example, Donald Trump used the Ad Hominem fallacy…

One of the logical fallacies that I found is Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means the author assumes that one event causes the other. For example “Times of carnival temporally marginalize the monstrous, but at the same time allow it a safe realm of expression and play: on Halloween everyone is a demon for a night” (Cohen, 191). The author is assuming that in Halloween most people dress up as the monster they desire to be, which led all the expression to come up and also the real actions that a…

The logical positivists actively sought to reject metaphysics and other such groundless grandstanding as being utter nonsense and having no basis for being meaningful. This formed the basis of the verificationist theory of meaning (verificationism) which proposes that there ought to be a way to absolutely measure and assess a statement and whether what it is saying is applicable or apropos hinges on this verification. A J Ayers in Language, Truth and logic introduced verificationism and defines…

talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored (Post-truth Politics). So many people form emotional attachments to their arguments that they appear to be seeing through glasses with bias lenses. One example of a politician engaging in debate with a narrow point of view is when Donald Trump stated at a rally in Arizona that the newly approved government budget would decrease border security, however, the actually clause within the proposal states that more money will be available for…