Proof by contradiction

Why is critical thinking essential to biological psychology? Intro In this essay I will be explaining the meaning of critical thinking and biological psychology, I will write about how critical thinking is used in biological psychology, examples of theories will be included and discussed in detail, thirdly I will evaluate the importance of critical thinking in biological psychology, to do this I will be using examples of theories and findings for me to highlight the effects of lack of…

Samuel Bowles’ opinion piece titled Warriors, Levelers and the Role of Conflict in Human Social Evolution (2012) discusses the role of conflict in human history. His outlook is that intra-group conflict catalyzed major societal developments. The developments that Bowles focuses on are “democracy, the rule of law, and a propensity to help others and to abhor injustice” (p. 876). The formation of democracy, Bowles contends, was dependent on the culmination of a single national entity that…

Indigenous Sovereignty and the Being of the Occupier 98 unwillingness to recognize asylum seekers’ property-own - ing subjectivity in much the same way that Australian gov - ernments had denied equal treatment before the law to cer - tain classes of immigrants from the 1920s to the 1940s. In the twenty-first century the practice of granting fixed term temporary protection visas to asylum seekers in place of per - manent visas bears the very same mark of rendering a cer - tain class of…

Serial reflects ideas on love, death, and the justice system. Serial is a compelling and confusing story of true crime that derives from conflicting stories, unanswered questions, and unfortunate consequences. Although Serial provides us with a background of the legal system, it offers an understanding of before and with the law, due process and the ambiguities of professional policing involving the fantasy of amateur detection involving the case of Hae Min Lee’s murder, but it contradicts the…

years has become a high controversial issue in the nation especially in boarder state Arizona. The U.S Supreme Court signed SB1070, Arizona’s infamous anti-immigration law on June 25 2010, which expanded the right to authority personnel to demand for proof of legality if suspicion of being in the country illegally. SB1070 institutionalizes racial profiling by the mere fact that police officers oblige any person of color or with an accent to prove their immigratory status whether they may or not…

Destiny Hope Cyrus, better known as Miley, is a famous young performing artist who just recently labeled herself as a feminist. The question is; what characteristics make someone a feminist? Within the last couple of years, Cyrus has released some questionable music videos to the public while simultaneously calling herself a female supporter. Feminists are people who believe in equal rights, which Cyrus does agree with. However, what the singer fails to understand is that females are worth more…

law, and therefore the action it describes is not moral. Self-contradictions (such as ‘‘Let everyone be simultaneously rich and poor!’’) are, strictly speaking, vacuous: they don’t tell us anything, other than that the speaker is very deeply confused. One certainly cannot desire or intend that the world conform to what has been said. Using Kant’s theory, for inversion to be ethical it would have to be possible, without self-contradiction, to will that all companies change their locus of…

Experiments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicate that PACT is an activator of PKR (Patel and Sen, 1998). The mouse homologue of PACT was cloned as well and also turned out to be a PKR activator (Ito et al., 1999). These results seem to be in contradiction with our results and with experiments done on TRBP (a human protein that is highly similar to PACT, RAX and Xlrbpa) which is a PKR inhibitor (Benkirane et al., 1997; Cosentino et al., 1995; Daher et al., 2001; Park et al., 1994). To test if…

\includegraphics[width = 9 cm]{infinitegeometricseries.png} \end{center} If the first term in this series is the area of the triangle, then the second is the sum of the areas of two triangles whose bases are the two smaller secant lines, and so on. This proof uses a variation of the series: $\frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{16} + \frac{1}{64} + \frac{1}{256} + ...$ which sums to $\frac{1}{3}$. Sadly, Archimedes’ life came to an end in 212 BC, for he was slain by a roman soldier who thought the…

The very subject matter of war is not easy to digest, especially when you experience the gruesome, honest and heartbreaking tales from the perspectives of various eyes throughout Tony Barnstone’s Tongue of War. Throughout his collection, readers experience a raw honesty that is nothing like they have encountered before and that makes the discussion that more interesting as we course the emotions and thoughts Barnstone created within his audience page after page. However, the experience of a poem…