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fall gradually to reach the base. When the snowflakes/object falls, it experiences two external forces which are; the gravitational force and the aerodynamic (air resistance) drag of the object, which gradually brings the object down. Furthermore, the drag force affects the object because of the shape and the viscosity of the fluid. This is because the object is increasing its speed due to the force of the gravity which is pulling the object down…

afford fancy, useless objects. They had to save their money for absolute necessities, and they knew that their possessions would not make them better than anybody else. Plato, an Ancient Greek philosopher, argued that objects can destroy a person's character. Jean-Paul Satre, a twentieth-century philosopher, argued that ownership does not just stop at physical objects, also includes skills and talents. I agree with both Plato and Satre. Ownership can ruin a person when the object make the feel…

telescope. His most influential and famous contribution came from his three laws that describe the motion of objects on the earth. The first law Newton created was based off of Descartes, but the other two are created from scratch. Isaac Newton changed the modern era of scientific thinking…

“Out of sight, and out of mind” pertains especially to children under the age of two, in that when an object becomes out of sight or out of reach, it ceases to exist in their minds. The attainment of object permanence is a milestone in not only cognitive…

The development of a minimal sense of self, across objects, plays an important role in the growth of a human (Cunningham, Turk, Macdonald & Macrae, 2008). It is common for a person to develop a sense of ownership towards objects, which can elicit a greater sense of appeal, known as the ownership effect (Cunningham et al., 2008). In some cases, such as in the mere ownership effect, the value of the object can be overestimated (Feng, Zhao, & Donnay, 2013). Even though, ownership not only causes…

parachute works by slowing down a falling object, sometimes the object is a human skydiving. Additionally using many different vocabulary words such as gravity, scientists can explain how a parachute works.…

Margaret Atherton does however, explore Berkeley’s argument as one in which is stated reasonably and coherently color does exist as a part of objects, or in other words that “snow is actually white”, and that this theory is better than previous philosophical theory. I will give a summary of her arguments before asserting my opinion that Berkeley’s argument far more beneficial to objectivists than to the whole of color theory In the world of color existing, Atherton describes two dichotomous…

of objects over time is a problem for the persistence of these objects. Properties of objects change over time such as trees growing taller and candles melting. Haslanger (2003) notes that this is a problem if we want to call these objects the same thing after change even though they have incompatible properties (p. 316). The tree in the field cannot have the properties of both being five meters tall and six meters tall. Perdurantism is one of the theories that attempts to explain how objects…

Indiscernibles, one of the dialogue participants refers to the symmetrical universe as an example of two objects (“a” and “b”) and whether one of them have distinct qualities, that the other doesn’t have. The principle states, “For any x and y, if x and y have all the same properties, then x is identical to y.” The argument between “A” and “B” in the thesis highlights whether these two objects will be distinctive enough to prove which Principle false. In the argument, the dialogue…

It should be common sense that physical objects existed, right? As the philosophical battle of wits continued on, I had to concede to the fact that Philonous has convinced me that while objects of the world existed, the reality I live in only exists in my mind. Philonous argues that our views on matter in the world only existed because of our senses. Since everyone’s and everything’s senses are different and are subject to change, the properties of the objects in the world are only as real as we…