Philosophical logic

“To what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusion that we reach?” When you think about it, to a certain extent we actually utilize the concepts that we acquired overtime to shape the conclusions reached. We as people for the part may use concepts that we know, take pieces from it and use what we know ourselves to come up with this conclusion. To be able to achieve the goal of actually giving a direct answer to this question, reasoning and memory would be used as ways of knowing…

What does sense-certainty fail in achieving, and what does this failure mean for epistemology? 2000. December 9th. Sense-certainty is Hegel 's approach to proving that knowledge of the world is not a wholly passive process, he does this through a dialectic from, meaning that the argument moves as a conversation, with hegel presenting an answer to a question, in this case how one can know about the world through consciousness, and then works to show how the answer is wrong in itself, because…

While we have seen that Socrates is good at rejecting incorrect arguments, it is equally important to be able to identify correct ones. The Meno begins with Meno, a friend of Scorates, asking Socrates if virtue can be taught or is it an inborn quality that some posses from birth and others never will. Socrates and his friend then begin to perform an investigation into the nature and form of virtue. When they arrive at the question of how one may know and recognize virtue when it is found,…

A glass bottle is broken in the middle of the street, and as common sense would tell anyone, it is probably best to avoid and walk around it. However, if everyone embodied this practical and sound judgment, then why do people still smoke cigarettes despite knowing the effects to their body? The question is then this: is common sense really so, common? The Oxford dictionary definition states common sense as “good sense and sound judgement in practical matters.” The problem within the…

enlighten the student and allow him to understand why what he is learning in other classes is important. Berger continues in his article and introduces Gerard F. Vallone, a professor of philosophy at Pace University, who expands on the idea of philosophical exposure in early education by clarifying, “The aim is not to discuss the ideas of great philosophers but to become philosophers. ' ' Philosophy for young students would give them priceless insight into their state of life, giving way to a…

Most relevant to my analysis, McCall reverses the conventional view in arguing that rather than first observing violations of equal opportunity and then raising questions about the legitimacy of the level of inequality, Americans may observe the level of inequality and make the inference that opportunities are unequal. This suggests that Americans see highly disparate outcomes and make inferences about the availability of opportunity. In the following sections, I detail how this connection is…

Rhetoric Analysis: Is Google Making Us Stupid? Indents? The article by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid, formatting? Carr’s main argument is as the Internet has become an integral part of our society is changing the way we process information an simple way of processing information. My interpretation of Carr’s main argument is that the Internet has made it harder to process complex information and now rendering the way information is processed in a simply manner. The reason he…

What does it mean to have knowledge with absolute certainty? Is there any? Though might seem very simple to answer, they can be very difficult to ponder upon critically. To reason such inquiries, one must go into deep thought of what it is questioning and that it exactly what philosophy is. Author in his book examines each of the famous opinions raised by the fathers of modern philosophy and some of the most sophisticated thinkers. Before presenting his own, author states his view toward each…

In his 2005 paper “Ethics and Intuitions,” Peter Singer seeks to find a new role for intuitions in moral theorizing in light of studies by Jonathan Haidt and Joshua Greene, which seem to cast doubt on the reliability of moral intuitions. These studies suggest that much of our moral reasoning is less based in rationalizing and more based in instinctual “gut” reactions, and that these instincts can be explained in terms of their evolutionary history. Further, Greene in particular demonstrates that…

father of educational philosophy. Plato used to be a follower of Socratic in education. He is the one who founded the Academy in Athens and wrote many philosophical works including The Republic, which outlines Plato's utopian society and his thoughts about political and educational issues (Gutek, 2009). Historically, Plato's beliefs in philosophical thought are the idea of perennials, perennials is an educational philosophy based on idealism. Idealism is directly traced to Plato, with concepts…