Reasoning

Drone warfare, enacted by George Bush and expanded on by President Obama to provide safety for Americans against al-Qaeda. Rather than retrieving intelligence from sources within the country, the use of weaponized unmanned surveillance drones allowed for far better independent targeting decisions. These strategic implications created a question among Americans, is the use of drones to target individuals ethical? This question has arisen due to a high number of civilian casualties, making it seem…

Clinical Reasoning Activity In this case study the nurse, Kevin, has been presented with a patient, Alma, who is 89 years old and has recently been admitted to the hospital for a fractured right tibia and a laceration to her head, both resulting from a fall three days ago. Alma is in need of surgery, but will be in a boot for at least 8 weeks post operation. The patient has a history of hypertension and has type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is somewhat controlled by oral medication. She was…

For his method of good reasoning, he broke it up into four maxims: non-hastiness, division and analysis, order of invest and the completion and exhaustive. The first rule of the method is to be clear and distinct. Descartes explains how he came to avoid faulty and hasty judgments…

Fallacies are made in various arguments and speeches throughout history, in order to win an argument. In The march of the flag, given by Albert J. Beveridge, there are fallacies detected throughout the speech. Fallacies are incorporated throughout the speech in order to have the audience agree with Beveridge’s views on the superiority of white Christian Americans compared to other citizens in other countries who practice other religions and worship deities. In the opening of the speech,…

Logical fallacies are part of everyday life, whether we notice them or not. Fallacies are the mistakes in our reasoning. One common fallacy is false analogy. In a false analogy, two objects, events or people that aren’t typically related, are shown to be similar. An example of this would be comparing object A to object B. If object A has property C, and object B has property C, objects A and B must be the same thing. An analogy fails when the two objects are different in a way which affects…

the American colonists), but because of its ability to hold relevance in different situations and times. Now whether it was intentional or completely accidental by Thomas Jefferson is another discussion altogether. Here, I would like to explain my reasoning process by breaking up a certain phrase. The document states that men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” As Dr. Green pointed out, this was powerful…

Claim, Evidence and Reasoning Graphic Organizer Question: Are Fat and Soap Different Substances? Claim: Fat and soap are different substances. Evidence (from your data) Solubility - Fat was soluble in oil. Soap was not soluble in oil. Fat was not soluble in water. Soap was soluble in water. Reasoning (why does the above piece of evidence support your claim?) The above piece of evidence supports my claim because it proves that in the same substance (H2O), fat and soap have different…

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…

History is a composition of past events. It is real and honest. However, the materials used by historians (which are called sources) to study history are only records of history, so they need not to be absolutely true and unbiased. If a group of scholars were to evaluate a set of clues surrounding a play, they would mainly use texts and written records of the play and all these evidences are considered sources which therefore need to be carefully examined before put into use. To these scholars,…

Pre-Class Assignment #2 Approaches to Ethical Reasoning- Key Concepts and Variations 1) Lovin depicts a good life from two different points of view really. He uses Augustine’s example of a “humanity divided between two allegiances: worldly city and a heavenly one”.( Lovin,pg 13) There is no middle city that we belong to. So really the good life must first be looked at from both of those citizenships. Worldy citizenship says that the good life is get all you can get, acquire is the method of…