Syllogism

1. Why does Frankfurt think BS is worse than lying? Explain in detail. - Although both a liar and bullshitter are abusing the truth, Frankfurt believes that bullshitting is worse than lying because when someone tells a lie they are concerned about keeping the truth from the person/s they are lying to. A bullshitter does not care about these things. The only thing that matters to the bullshitter is being able to get away with not telling the truth. When someone lies, they always have to keep one…

Both Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant envision the state of nature as one of insecurity, fear, and mistrust, with Hobbes stepping so far as to call the state of nature a “state of war.” Both philosophers accordingly believe that only under an externally imposed contract can this state of fear lessen and can interests be kept in check, even if competition cannot be halted. Hobbes and Kant emerge from the same place in evaluating the necessity of a contract between parties, but it is within the…

Reading Response: The Apology Analysis “Why does Socrates believe himself to be innocent?” The Apology is a record of Socrates defense to his jurors who had charged him with impiety. When taken before the court, a major part of his defense, is that the Oracle at Delphi proclaims him to be the wisest man alive. Later the Oracle gives the reason that he is wise explaining “He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.”. While this statement is a…

When the word argument is mentioned what comes to mind, a fight or altercation? Philosophy has a different definition of an argument. It has nothing to do with being violent or verbally abusive to the contender. An argument is a process of reasoning from one claim to another. An argument supports your ideas with justification from other ideas, principles, and observations to establish your conclusions and overcome objections. A philosophical argument does not require an opponent or a…

Mike Davis begins his argument, Let Malibu Burn: A Political History of the Fire Coast, with strong imagery: “consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable march across the mountains to the sea” (par 1). Davis then constructs a premise that wildfires will continue to cause immense damage as long as private residential homes continue to exist in the Santa Monicas. He rebuts this premise by offering numerous historical examples such as the wildfire in 1835 in Jose Tapia's Rancho Topanga Malibu…

Mark Smith argues that perspectiva is not visual perception alone, but perspectiva also entails visual cognition. Aristotle made a lasting legacy on the theory of abstraction so that universals can be observed and cognitive analyses can be used to identify and understand forms. Smith’s article is written for a more academic audience with certain previous knowledge. One must first know that perspectiva is about Platonic metaphysical discussions. Smith first outlines the theory of abstraction and…

to see if that argument is true. This tool is primarily to compare arguments between each other, as it creates a way to distinguish sound arguments from unsound ones. Wenzel once again refers to Aristotle by referencing a classic logical tool, a syllogism, which can be used to make a logical argument. And while Wenzel admits that not all logical forms work for all arguments, he references the many attempts to capture logical structure in an argument, most notably by discussing the model created…

Idea” in which he expresses his concerns about a UBI. Although Van Parijs works to prove the merits of basic income to his liberal audience and Cass attempts to demonstrate its shortcomings to his more conservative audience, both writers utilize syllogisms, appeals to pathos, and refutation of counterarguments to sway readers to their…

Throughout the year, it felt as though we neglected to cover all rhetorical elements, I constantly found myself asking during APEXs, “ What is an understatement? What’s a syllogism? How can something be anti thesis”. Not even our Language of Composition books had a complete list of possible elements, and I feel as though, if I did not take it among myself to study others on my own, I would have been lost on the AP exam. The…

Sunsets, evenings, a skeleton, sleep, anesthetic, gravestones, an old man or woman, a stopped clock, coffin, the depth of the see - the void, all of these, are symbols of death or the fear of it. What lies after death is an enigma to all of us, expect the cases when we had a near death experience. However, the archetype of death is not entirely in connection with the physical death. The archetype of death is about our observation of death in other beings; our cognition of it based on our…