Proof by contradiction

The definition of race, and racism, as a ‘scavenger ideology’ stems from the concept that it ‘borrows’ definitions and applications from anything that the ideology can be meaningfully tied to. The concept of ‘race’ draws elements from social constructs such as xenophobia, religious bigotry, nationalism and essentialism; as well as pseudoscientific ‘strains’ of anthropology, biology and eugenics. The basis of a ‘scavenger ideology’ is to be adaptable and versatile by picking up, or abandoning,…

the object itself. Primary qualities are those that can be quantified or mathematised better known as the properties of an object whereby the qualities are dependent on the object not independent of it. Mathematics and physics shows us the visual proof of these abstracted qualities. This addresses the core of this question that objects are mind dependent shown by Locke, that Primary Qualities exists outside of the mind and would exist whether or not human minds are present to perceive them.…

An Analysis on Personal Identity The philosophical question of who I am, or personal identity is an arduous question to answer. There are two questions that derive in personal identity. What makes these memories or mental events mine? And what how do these events unify into making me the same person I was yesterday, or ten years ago? This essay will go over the works of John Locke, considered to be the first philosopher to give a theorem in regards to personal identity, Thomas Reid, who…

There are many formalistic expressions in the critique of practical reason, the most formalistic emptiness debate is around Kant’s interpretation of law-giving force of the moral law that must stem from its mere form, if its universalizability stemmed from the content, the law could only hold for that content and not universally. For example, ‘for which the mere lawgiving form of a maxim can alone serve as a law is a free will’, the law giving form of a maxim is ‘the only thing that can…

One very impressive attack on Hume’s argument, trying to solve it with its definition, is as follows. The first premise of the argument is challenged, which is “if we want induction to be rationally justified, induction must be reliable.” Since the definition of deduction is based on the validity of an argument, which is assumed to be reliable, why couldn’t reliability be a part of the definition of induction? Induction is defined to be reliable in this attack. However, reliability cannot be a…

Venetian discrimination by disbelieving the miscegenation between Desdemona and Othello, where foreshadowing a diminished consecration caused by racial heritage and challenged conventional values. Shakespeare’s conclusive view entails Othello’s contradiction towards racial stereotypes and personal acknowledgement as a Christian insider who killed a metaphorical ‘circumcised dog’ (Turkish outsider) to reinforce his position in mainstream Venetian society. Ultimately, Shakespeare communicates how…

Mason Owens Essay 1 The argument in the book American Crucible Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle is conveyed in the introduction to his book. Gerstle writes about three different but interrelated ideas of America. The first part of his argument is the idea of Racial Nationalism and its importance in American Nationalism “Just as other scholars have insisted on the centrality of race…I argue for its importance in regards to American Nationalism” (12). Racial Nationalism is…

hand, the concept of internal conflict is also evident throughout the novel between the extreme divisions of democracy and totalitarianism. George Orwell specifically ingrains the consequences of the Party’s desperate control of power and provides proof that they are inconsiderate, inhuman individuals that will reach any extend to stay in power, regardless of any consequences for the people. This methodology is exemplified when O’Brien says, “The object of persecution is persecution. The object…

fingerprints would be all over the immediate area (Duffy). This consequential timeline can be see as just that, a coincidence, or, the more likely option, the police seized Oswald’s palmprint and placed it in the sniper’s nest so they have definite proof he was there. However, on the sixth floor of that building there were 3 cartridge shells found, meaning that the shots did come from that building, just not from Oswald (Polidoro). There was someone else who shot that gun and…

The author Friedrich Nietzsche in his text (“The Madman”, 1882) used a narrative to prove a point. To be more specific he wanted to show or demonstrate to people how bad was the status of religion and of faith in Europe around his time (1882-1887) the time when he was publishing “The Gay Science”. The story started with a man who is described as a “madman”. The madman begins by entering a marketplace and starts to shout loudly “I seek God! I seek God!” He then encounters a group of people in the…