Ministry of Truth

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out to construct his brand of epistemology and refine his definition of empiricism. Rather than contending that the mind is imprinted with information instinctually, Locke argues that not only does all knowledge stems from the subject’s experience of the material world by means of the subject’s senses. The senses, Locke argues, are “infallible” and the sole means by which we organize knowledge. To demonstrate the necessity of the senses…

Do you ever wonder what happens to people when they lie? The issue is when people lie, it can turn into HUGE fights! It could also cause people not being friends anymore. Lying is not nice/kind in any situation but it does help sometimes with someone else’s problems. It can even cause damage to a family. But when something bad happens and someone needs to tell a tiny lie, it may not be the right thing but sometimes they just have to. It can be dangerous sometimes because it may cause people…

perfectly nice people in our world that have no use for God and know how it’s going to end. “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the…

Rationalist philosopher Descartes implies that we can never really know for certain if we are actually living the life we believe we are. We could be sleeping at this very moment and dreaming about all this? We could be living in a phony computer simulation and we wouldn’t know it. I believe that Descartes and modern scientists are actually onto something here and aren’t as crazy as they seem to be. In this essay, I will summarize rationalism and Descartes’ First Meditation. I will also be…

The Matrix did constitute an argument that our ordinary knowledge claims are not really knowledge. In The Matrix, Keanu Reeves plays a computer programmer who leads a double life as a hacker called “Neo”. He thought himself living a normal life until one day he received a phone call from Morpheus, and is then told that reality is actually very different from what he, and most other people, perceives it to be. In the following sequence, Morpheus, the leader of the rebels, offered Neo a choice…

Margarita Rodriguez Philosophy of Nursing Millers College of Nursing October 9, 2015 Discussion Question 2 The word epistemology itself comes from two Greek words ?Episteme? meaning knowledge or understanding and ?Logia? meaning science or study. In a philosophical context, epistemology is the ?study of knowledge and justified belief,? examples of philosophical questions are: What are the necessary and sufficient conditions of knowledge? What are its sources? What is its structure, and what…

VI. The Wider Picture Institutional Inaction, Bullshit, and Lying do not exist in a vacuum. Frustratingly, their effects are have ramifications for our understanding of truth far outside of the immediate 'truth value of X'. Indeed, when we make epistemic missteps, it can affect our entire worldview, degrade the assurances we have of knowledge, and provoke disaster far down the line. William Clifford showed us the danger of a boat captain ignoring good epistemic virtues, but what of an entire…

Descartes went on to mention the three hypothesis that he feels are ways to doubt his beliefs in the first meditation but as he goes on to the second meditation, he comes up with a belief that cannot be doubted. As he concluded his first meditation, he came up with his strongest hypothesis and that dealt with evil demons deceiving him but with this new belief that cannot be doubted, he feels that he must exist to even be led on towards deception from that evil figure. Because he was doubting his…

assumptions from their own environment. The individuals communicate with one another their own ideas and bias of subjects through language but because their personal experiences differ, each cave dweller has a different aspect of the world. Finding truth in anything would be difficult to muster between the individuals with such abstract viewpoints so they all develop their own sense of the world. In context, The Idols of the Cave would be comparable to two football fans arguing over whose team…

means you have failed, but failure is not the end. In fact, Failure is a precursor to the greatest technological and personal triumphs in our history. So, admitting when you are wrong moves the conversation forward, inching everyone closer to the truth. Apropos of nothing! You know, it's getting pretty bad for those of us on 'the right." What I mean is, can you imagine not having a single voice in news media or print media saying the things you like to hear. Imagine you woke up switched on…