Syllogism

Main Argument: P1: The basic components of education are common core math, reading, arts and humanities. P2: Individuals taught arts and humanities improve their education. P3: Researchers found that students with a strong background in Arts and Humanities score higher in math and reading. C: Thus, common core math, and reading correlate with arts & humanities Counterargument: P1: Most students lack the very literacy skills at the primary and…

In 1895, what was it to be Basque, and how did it differ from being Spanish? In Sabino Arana’s 1895 paper entitled “What Are We?” we see Arana sets out to define these differences between his people the Vizcaya (a providence in the Basque country), from the Spanish people through an impassioned article published in a Basque newspaper. This writing was penned directly to the Vizcayans in the 1895 Bizkaitarra (Bilbao) newspaper article published on June 16th, 30th, and July 7th. Arana’s…

How would you compare the ideas, values and attitudes reflected in Metropolis and 1984? Humanist concerns usually stretch across time and this is apparent in my comparative study of the attitudes Fritz Lang and George Orwell have towards certain ideas and values. These composers present ideas of individual oppression and values towards personal freedom and love through their specific textual form — the film Metropolis and novel 1984. Influential of Lang’s concerns during Weimar Republic in…

Deserved or Corrupt? The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a respected and dignified award. It is often presented to renowned figures that have helped to shape worldwide communications today. By presenting this award to undeserving figures such as Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize has been seriously undermined of its credibility and prestige. Both Tom Toles and Michael Binyon excellently explain and criticize this absurd handout through their rhetoric arguments. Their logic and argumentation…

The composer’s representation of people and politics are products of their own political motivations and perspective, which advocate discussion and awareness amongst the audiences by exposing the hidden fallacies embedded within historical past. Portrayed through personal and public agendas, the process of representation evokes awareness amongst readers by compelling them to revaluate their own perspectives in their political sphere. Inherent in Henry Reynold’s memoir, Why Weren’t We Told (1999)…

philosopher from the early years of 1561-1626. Bacon is famous for many of his philosophical works, including the Novum Organum. Published in 1620 the Novum Organum suggests an entirely new system of logic, which is based on induction rather than on the syllogism. Bacon recognized that the human mind is filled with incorrect and irrational ideas that are preventing them from interpreting nature accurately. These incorrect notions are described by Bacon as the “four classes of Idols which beset…

In one of his points he mentions the innocent-human-life perspective which states the syllogism “1. All innocent human beings have the right to life, 2. All human fetuses are innocent human beings, 3. Therefore, all human fetuses have the right to life.”. Another one of his points when arguing with singer Mary Anne Warren who stated “being…

All knowledge comes from somewhere. Even if it is innate (comes from within us) we still have to say how that knowledge appears. The Ways of Knowing are the methods through which knowledge becomes apparent to us. There are eight different ways of knowing: Language, Sense Perception, Emotion, Reason, Imagination, Faith, Intuition, and Memory. This essay will analyse two ways of knowing: Reason and Sense Perception. One way of acquiring new knowledge about the world is by using reason. Most people…

Organon included the categories, On Interpretation, the Prior Analytics, the Posterior Analytics, the Topics, and On Sophistical Refutations. These books touch on many issues: the logical structure of propositions, the proper structure of arguments (syllogisms), the difference between induction and deduction, the nature of scientific knowledge, basic fallacies (forms of specious reasoning), debating techniques, and so on. But we cannot confine our present investigations to the Organon.…

Art critic, John Berger, says, “Reproduction isolates a detail of a painting from the whole”(Berger 154). This seems like a very candid and closed minded view of what reproduction is. This simply gives an example of what reproductions can look like and not what reproduction really is. What does he think about reproduction that puts a more modern perspective on an old piece of art? Well, that is exactly what Rodrigo Lara Zendejas does with her piece, Crowd Gate. In 1917 Auguste Rodin created the…