Probabilistic logic

In “Disliking Books” (an excerpt from the 1993 book, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education) Gerald Graff tells his story about growing up as a middle-class Jew in Chicago (22). He grew up disliking and fearing literature, history, and other advanced books. His explanation for his disdain towards reading was his fear of being bullied by the other boys in the working-class. Reading at the time was only acceptable for girls. When entering college, he…

wanes based upon positive or negative peer feedback”(qtd.in Leary,2001). Here the authors are attempting to provide the reader with sufficient information about social anxiety so they can have some insight about the logic of those that are affected by this disorder. Explaining the logic of someone with social anxiety appeals to the logical reasoning of the audience and helps them understand why social anxiety is such a debilitating…

“Highly unlikely, but not outside the realm of possibility”-David Duchovny. This familiar phrase from the popular nineties television show “The X-Files” manifested itself in my mind when reading the article that profoundly influenced the University of Central Arkansas’ Honors Program, Peter Elbow’s abridged version of “The Doubting Game and the Believing Game—An Analysis of the Intellectual Enterprise (Excerpts)”. Though on a much more theatrical and improbable level, this show relates to the…

Convincing others to change their mind is tricky. As business people, getting others to agree to our ideas will be a crucial part of our jobs. We need to understand the best strategies to persuade others. In order to understand persuasion, we need to know the objectives of persuasion, what type of arguments to use, and how to successfully persuade. The three main objectives of persuasion are reinforcing positive opinions, realizing unformed opinions, and neutralizing hostile opinions.…

Inductive logic takes a specific case or issue and applies it to prove a premise or conclusion. A paradigm is a rule a persuader uses to assist their audience in making a decision. Chapter 14: Spot Fallacies The four major questions used to spot a fallacy are the…

Matthew McGee Epistemology Final Paper Q1 Goodman 's “grue” example and Hempel’s Raven Paradox are very similar. The Raven Paradox posits that for any given object x, when we assert that it is neither black, nor a raven, we are confirming the hypothesis that “all non-black things are non-ravens” (pg, 70). From this we can also make the logically equivalent statement that “all ravens are black.” This is an unexpected conclusion according to Goodman. Furthermore, our statement about the…

The atheist-theist argument has been an age-long debate. Though it is debated, it does not mean that it is, by any means, a matter of a guess. A theist can have full confidence that God is real, as well as reasonable evidence to reach that conclusion in lieu of the many atheist arguments. In Have Atheists Proved There Is No God by Thomas B. Warren, the reader is introduced to an atheist argument that has been widely used for numerous years and it’s logical implications. In addition to the…

In her article “Victorian Values For the 21st Century” (Globe and Mail, October 5 2013), Margaret Wente addresses the topic of success among females and males; and how both genders differ in terms of aptitude and attitude. She believes that to be successful in a profession, one must possess 19th century qualities. Her purpose is to argue that males lack the required qualities to be successful. Furthermore, she argues that females have a better work ethic than males; and that females possess the…

Part 2: What you did during the rehearsal For this part of the reflection regarding what I did during my rehearsal, I have chosen to analyze how I Elicited and Responded to Student Thinking and how I Represented Students’ Mathematical Thinking. Eliciting & Responding to Student Thinking To demonstrate how I elicited and responded to student thinking, I have chosen to examine my video from 2:45 – 3:25. During this time, I asked students for their answers to the problem given to them and their…

In the movie 12 Angry Men, a young man is on trial for murdering his father. The movie opens at a point in the trial after the witnesses have testified, and the prosecution and defense have had their say. It is now up to the twelve men of the jury to decide the fate of the defendant. In this particular case if he is found guilty, he will be sentenced to death by the electric chair. The jury go in to the jury room, sit down, and take a vote. The defendant is found guilty eleven to one, but since…