Presupposition

Reflexivity continuously examines researcher’s systemic, epistemological and methodological reflexivity but reflexivity does not examine participant’s belief, assumptions, presuppositions, which also important issue to be investigated to get legitimate truth. According to Denzin and Lincoln (2000), the qualitative methodology faces a triple crisis of representation, legitimation, and praxis (cited in Day, 2012). The concept of…

is proven by pure reason and definitions instead of gathering facts. For example, a salmon is a fish; therefore, since salmon is a type of fish the example is known to be analytical. The second judgement is synthetic (a posteriori knowledge)--presuppositions of science by going out and gathering facts. An example of synthetic is “it often rains in Vancouver” while yes, it does rain in Vancouver, it is not always raining or found in the definition of the city. However, Kant states that synthetic…

question. This happens when the truth of the argument is presupposed in the premises. These can be convincing, however, when you see the circular logic between the premises and conclusion, you will recognize the presupposition. Many times with these types of arguments, the presupposition in the premises is seen again in the conclusion.…

argument about religion is only for the credulous public. Dawkins’ defines religion as an especially potent silencer of rational calculation partly because it discourages questioning by its very nature (346). He makes this case in view of the presupposition that religious faith is useless in society. This theory is classified as a fallacy on the grounds that…

and necessary concept of God, that we must posit in order to posit God (and not: a god). Therefore, God is being itself. But to be being itself is not his divinity, but rather the presupposition of his divinity”. Thus, the concept of God from a negative point of view includes oneness, which becomes the presupposition of any manifestation of God. Crucially, God is not a one as opposed to a plurality, as it would be in the dogmatic context. Instead, God 's oneness escapes the dichotomy between…

Many public high schools in America today are charging students that drive to school, a fee to get a parking sticker that permits them to park in that parking lot. This has caused an up roar in students and parents across the nation because why should a student, that attends a public school be charged an additional tax to come to school in their own vehicle? The answer to this question remains unanswered, but the school districts and state legislation consider it to be a source of profit. While…

Simon, in his book, introduced six sexual lenses that we could use in order to identify and understand the sexual tendency of current culture. In this chapter, he identified "Covenantal Lens," "Procreative Lens," "Romantic Lens," "Plain Sex Lens," "Power Lens," and finally, "Expressive Lens." I believe that it is very hard for us to find a single lens to identify the sexual tendency of the pop culture as many of these lenses are intertwined and progressive to one another. I believe, however,…

In cancer patients, Sigal et al. (2008) found no differences between different stages of illness concerning death anxiety and religiosity. Although women generally are more religious than men (Levin & Taylor, 1993), changes in religiosity are not influenced by gender in cancer patients (McFarland et al., 2013). Recently, The Supernatural Belief Scale (Jong, Bluemke & Halberstad, 2013) was designed to measure respondents ‘tendencies to believe in existentially significant supernatural entities…

is part of the social world in which the research is being conducted, I argue that the researcher will inevitably bring some of his or her personal accounts to bear on the topic under investigation. The concern about a discourse analyst’s own presuppositions and the possible influence these may have on research itself is reasonable. To fight this bias, discourse researchers instinctively search for a pattern in the discourse, as it stems from a given context, and offer rigorous analyses on the…

However, I will argue that ‘non-idealists’ are overly critical in their assessment of the flaws of the ideal tradition. Every thinker or policy maker has to work with a certain amount of presuppositions or an intellectual debate is simply not possible. Additionally, proponents of the non-ideal tradition do not sufficiently acknowledge that what is ‘feasible’ is contextual. What is possible can and does shift over time. It would be one thing if…