Reasoning

Internal Conflicts of Ethical Reasoning Over the course of human history, civilizations have evolved using analogous ethical codes and social principles. Although these societies have succeeded for many centuries, people often lacked the ability to see their faults. The fault in every society is the inability to have complete conformity to a single idea. While few deem these guidelines breakable, the majority express that breaking these ethical codes will ultimately result in the downfall of an…

Circular Reasoning Before the miracle of modern medicine, the child mortality rate was unfortunately high. Mrs. Ann Putnam, the mother of Ruth and wife of Thomas Putnam, lost seven children before they even reached a day old. When Rebecca Nurse, a well-respected elder in Salem, learns that Mrs. Putnam sent her own child to the slave who is accused of causing the comatose states of Ruth Putnam and Betty Parris, she is appalled. Mrs. Putnam spits back, “Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca!…

In “Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering The Victim’s Story” Mari J. Matsuda addresses the topic of hate speech, and the legal rights surrounding it. She argues for the implementation of legal restrictions on hate speech. She makes the theoretical arguments that hate speech can be a causative factor for legitimate harm to individuals; she justifies the need for restrictions on hate speech by citing the various harm that can be conducted by individual that possess such speech. She claims…

At what point do you get led to cut your arm off? Wonder what you would have done if you were in that situation? Aron Ralston, is a dexterous hiker, who craves isolation to embark on adventures and be one with nature. It is a deeply enthralling film of the lengths a person will go to for survival. Ralston faced a terrible choice that most humans pray to be spared- whether to accept death as the foreseeable consequence, or to make a last desperate decision. He was out of the ordinary, an…

A new theory on fallacies should not just reassign terms to fallacies so people will feel better, which is the politically-correct agenda (What would we call fallacious arguments? Logically challenged discourse?) Rather, we don’t even need a “new” view, we need a view that has been around since humans first started contemplating speech, and that is to find meaning in an argument for the sake of meaning—a meaning that addresses the very fallacious nature of being human. We can concur with…

believed to be one of the greatest pieces of Romantic literature. This essay will explore the themes of science and nature presented in Shelley’s Frankenstein and how these themes are used to question whether the modern philosophy of enlightenment reasoning was as flawlessly superior as it was claimed to be. The essay will also look at the structure of the novel in order to unpack how Shelly has constructed it, reflects a preference to Romantic ideas. Firstly, there is the use of lightning and…

Fallacy is a kind of error during arguing or reasoning anything. Fallacy may be created intentionally or unintentionally, majorly identified fallacy involved in argument some are in explanation definition etc. Some people also define fallacy as failure in providing sufficient proof for a believe. Just after voting when Three said to Eight that” That person is dangerous killer you were at court and heard all the things.” Here this point is fallacy (cherry picking or begging the question) because…

more frequently in the most recent presidential race, the use of post-truth politics. This is “a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored (Post-truth Politics). So many people form emotional attachments to their arguments that they appear to be seeing through glasses with bias lenses. One example of a politician engaging in debate with a…

My scores are Sequence 22, Precision 20, Technical Reasoning 19, Confluence 14 My dad seems a bit opposite from me. His technical reasoning and confluence would be quite high for him because he is extremely handy and can create things easy, always find new or simpler ways to complete tasks and a man of little words. His precision and sequence would have pretty high numbers as well. He really doesn't have much of an avoid aspect. He will research things for hours until he finds what he needs and…

A logical fallacy is defined as a reasoning which is used by the author in order to persuade the people to accept the conclusions. A logical fallacy is one of the strategies used by many authors in order to convince the readers in accepting their own conclusions. There are many types of logical…