Ministry of Truth

University of North Alabama Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook Review Clint Brown October 21, 2015 Gary Vaynerchuk’s book will help you reconsider how we promote and sell to consumers. He expounds how you need to continuously lend significance to others prior to asking them to purchase your merchandise and services. The book is called Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World and it was published by HarperBusiness. In the book, Vaynerchuk provides copious instances of…

Descartes would not think that his having an idea of the Evil Demon proves that the Evil Demon does exist. In the Third Meditation, Descartes goes through a thought process about his idea of God and proves the existence of God. Using the same process and principles, it will show that even though Descartes may have an idea of an Evil Demon, this does not mean that the Evil Demon exists. There are other causes of Descartes having an idea of the Evil Demon than the Evil Demon being the origination…

Heterodoxy, (literally meaning ‘different’ doctrine) is a doctrine that deviates from the norm. Heterodoxy operates in dichotomy to Orthodoxy, which are the generally accepted ideals of a society (normative values). It also describes doctrines of competing truths, thesis’ and anti-thesis’. Society in its base form is a group of individuals that interact but have different values and interests. For top-down authority to be established, political elites must legitimize a set of normative values…

Words That Kill “Your words have power, use them wisely.”This quote says, Tords can harm people or help them. Just like in the case of Michelle Carter. Where Michelle used her freedom of speech to convince her boyfriend Roy to kill himself. There is proof of Michelle trying to convince Roy. One of the proof would be how she messages him and the words she uses. Another proof would be that Michelle did not take any action to stop what he was doing. The third and most important is that when Roy was…

Do I believe ghosts are real? Yes, I think that ghosts are real. I consider spirits as ghosts. No one can actually explain the existence of these supernatural beings, but I truly think they are in everyone's existence. It is called a spirit because it relates not to matter but to mind, soul, and feelings. Our own bodily soils are spirits and we all have a soul, so why wouldn't spirits be real? Spirits are a true part of reality that people face. We have all encountered something unique that we…

Martina James David Detmer Philosophy 221 21. March 2017 The Clifford/James Debate In 1877, William Kingdon Clifford wrote his essay “The Ethics of Belief”, in which he famously formulated evidentialism. Here is the question he poses: Is it ever morally permissible to believe a proposition on insufficient evidence, or is it ever okay to let our opinion be influenced by something other than evidence and rational argumentation? He answers the question with a resounding no, and he specifies it as…

water to the sun in our solar system is 15 million kilometers away. The Correspondence Theory takes information and attaches it to a real world comparison considered factual. Each truth is only named a truth when it is attached to something considered factual. Throughout history, the metaphysical question, of what truth and facts truly are, has been explored in all forms, relying on anything from the facts of what we already know to things considered impossible being possible by the shear fact…

Lying is done in order to prevent the truth from being found out. Personally, I am a bad liar. Moreover, I don’t like to lie about things because it leaves me with a guilty conscience afterwards. Lying is wrong because it has many dreadful consequences such as losing the trust of another person since you lied to them also it could demolish your relation with that person although there are certain cases in which lying can actually be seen as something exceptional. For example, you might want to…

Sarah Bear Mrs. Gahagan English 8 honors 10/16/14 Johnathan Anthony Burkett once said, “You know my name, not my story”. Throughout life, one would encounter many perplexing people, that put up a convincing act, but are they promoting the truth? Would one really know the accuracy of the identity they display? In “The Landlady” a story by Roald Dahl, about a bright young man, who gets drawn to a Bed and Breakfast run by a sweet, harm-free old women, or thats what he thinks... The reader…

Being Kept in the Cave “You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none… Let him forget there is such a thing as war” (Bradbury pg. 58). In this dystopian society, the media avoids giving valuable and worrying information to the public in order to keep peace and order. This lying and holding back of…