Philosophy of language

The question of how 'good ' is to be defined is the most fundamental question in all of Ethics. The main objective of Ethics is a systematic science to give correct reasoning for thinking that something is good. We must come up with a conclusion of what that good is, unless, as Moore puts it “such reasons cannot be given. (Moore, 5, 2) Moore sets out to define what we mean by the object of good. He sets out to determine this by comparing it to the color yellow. He comes to the conclusion…

The following paper will discuss matters of beauty and morality. Different meanings of beauty exist in present society, however the term is most popularly associated with physical characteristics. Physical characteristics include both aspects of behaviour and form and are deemed beautiful when perceived as appealing by others. Morality is the ability for individuals to think rationally and decipher between what is right and wrong. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley wrestles with themes of…

In the article, The Role of Definition, the author discusses how a mere definition can affect the way a student will interpret information. A definition can contain concepts that are difficult to understand and will hamper a student’s ability to learn. As math in the classroom progresses, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommends that the students create their own definitions of for mathematical terminology with the modification from a teacher. This is done to get the student to…

This is the life story of a young boy, growing up in Geneva, by the name of Victor Frankenstein. He tells us how fascinated he became with discovering “the secret to life”. In the part of the story, some might refer to it as “curiosity killed the cat”. He then puts together everything that his professors taught him and created a monster so horrid. He later began to question why he created something so horrible and gave this creature life. His main purpose in life went from finding the secret of…

In Gee’s article “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces” he first discusses the rhetoric behind the idea that a community is a “community” (214). A community implies that there is membership and for their to be members or membership means that some people or group of people need to be excluded. That is why Gee argues that we should no longer be call classrooms communities but instead call them spaces. A space is just an area or place to be used and does not by definition exclude anyone. To…

SIGN IN: CONTEXT SELECTION +*Description +* As a Box Office Manager, I want to select the database context, so that I would not have to type in the context ID when signing in to the application. +*Rationale +* In order for the user to be able to select the name of the context, opposed to having to first finding the context ID, then typing it into the application each time they log into the system. +* Acceptance Criteria+* □ User must select a context to sign in □ System _shall_ display the…

Without ever attending Dimensions of Culture, one could safely assume that the word contradiction is a statement or proposition that is logically incongruous. However, the term contradiction in Dimensions of Culture holds a significantly different meaning but still is a close cousin to the term most are familiar with. The key difference between the DOC term and the colloquial term is the connotation of the terms. As defined in the DOC reader, “Contradictions are present in all cultures and…

The authors used similar ways in which they conceptualized the main ideas as well as the concepts in the chapter. To conceptualize something means to define the main term. In general the process of conceptualization involves the validity of any research that has been or will be done. Describing measurement sources is a huge step in all of this, one will measure sources such as question, observations, as well as available data. The first example in Bachman and Schutt is in reference to a June…

If you look a word up online there is a possibility that you could wind up finding about three different versions of the word, and that doesn’t even include the slang versions of a word. Imagine we found another world with similar substances as there are on Earth, but they all had different names. This could potentially create a barrier in communication. Hilary Putnam thought he could solve an issue like this by creating what he called natural kind terms. Even if you can buy into Putnam’s theory…

Freedom, the gift given by life, the wings on a bird, the benevolence of America. The majority would agree that freedom is a necessity. Equality is a necessity. And then there is the most simple question that has a most complicated answer: What does freedom mean to me? Many would agree with me when I say that freedom is the absence of restraints that keep you from the ability of doing a specified action verbally or nonverbally. It is also, for the unlucky men and women who lack freedom, the…