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Logic And Argumentation Are Central To Persuasive Communication
1,820 wordsCommunication is an extremely important factor in our lives and much of the time is spent trying to persuade others towards our views. Logic and argumentation are central to persuasive communication. This document will outline the purpose of persuasive communication and its structure. Persuasive communication will be defined in a way that the main objective of persuasion is to convince the audience of the thesis, the thesis being the conclusion of a discourse. An integral part of persuasive comm...
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Lp Also Pp Pp Also Pa Worlds
1,283 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Some things are logically possible (LP). Others are physically possible (PP) and yet others are Physically Actual (PA). The things that are logically necessary (LN) are excluded from this discussion because they constitute a meta-level: they result from the true theorems in the logical systems within which LP, PP and PA reside. In other words: the LN are about relationships between t...
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Power And Greed In The Film Wall Street
816 wordsPower is an important issue in interpersonal communication. Power can shape a relationship by influencing what you do, when you do it, with whom you do it, etc. Experts identify six bases of power. These bases include referent power, legitimate power, expert power, information or persuasion power, reward power, and coercive power. Referent power is a power usually held over others when the individual wishes to be like you or be identified with you. Legitimate power is a power usually held over p...
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Problem Of Evil Existence Of Evil
1,447 wordsIn a strong argument for atheism, J. L. Mackie presents the argument from evil. His logical argument for evil is comprised of showing theists beliefs to be inconsistent. He states that God being omnipotent and omni-benevolent is contradictory with the existence of evil. Though his argument seems to be a good one, Mackie does provide four responses, or theodicies that are possible solutions to the problem of evil. Three of these are that evil is necessary as a counterpart to good, evil is a neces...
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Evidence To Support Logical Fallacies
943 wordsCritical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making MGT 350 Abstract In my paper I will identify and define three fallacies. I will explain their significance in relation to the Critical Thinking process and discuss their application to Decision Making. Lastly, I will provide examples to illustrate each of the chosen fallacies. Fallacy of Personal Attack Critical Thinking is a method used especially for problem resolution, it involves listening to all sides and the careful consideration of every an...
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United States Involvement In The Vietnam Part 2
1,857 words... these assumptions is able to withstand the weight of the international relations theory. However, lets shift the discussion to the international relations theory within the context of the U. S. and their participation in Vietnam War. The distinguishing feature of the point at issue is that the given situation couldnt be called stable. There were countries get involved into the conflict. These countries represented two different forms of social organization. The United States developed plans ...
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Ethical Egoism Psychological Egoism
1,868 wordsIn ethics egoism entails that the individual self is either the motivating moral force and is, or should, be the end of moral action. Egoism divides into both a positive and normative ethic. The positive ethic views egoism as a factual description of human affairs, that is people are motivated by their own interests and desires. The normative ethic is that they should be so motivated. Positivist egoism: Psychological Egoism The positivist egoist, whose theory is called psychological egoism, offe...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Existence Of God
1,593 wordsIn my life on this planet I have come to question many things that many take on as blind faith. We all know that someday we will physically die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. Its far easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all, rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately, there are some of us who tend ...
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God Existence Greater Can Be Conceived
1,599 wordsIn my life on this planet I have come to question many things that many take on as blind faith. We all know that someday we will? physically? die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. It? s far easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all, rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately, there are some of us who t...
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Antic Disposition Shakespeare Hamlet
1,203 wordsAntic Disposition Visualize this: A man is trapped inside a world he never made. This world begins with the conventions of tragedy through fiction. By the end this masterpiece, the flashing, delving presence of his mind and sprit has been transformed. It becomes the real world. In the real world, appearance and reality is a hard thing to differentiate. Appearance is reality in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Appearance (insanity) is used as a disguise, an excuse for his free will and a costume for...
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Moral Obligation Free Speech
1,299 wordsPhilosophy Ethical Theories Topic 1 An argument can be made that Major League Baseball s decision to suspend John Rocker from baseball due to his expressing bigoted views in a magazine interview is not right. This argument states that free speech is an important moral value, and since John Rocker has the right to free speech, suspending him for expressing his bigoted views violates the spirit of free speech. Therefore, his suspension was uncalled for because all he was doing was expressing one o...
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God Power
839 wordsLa Croix in his essay disputes the position set forth by Harry Frankfurt in his article Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths (The Philosophical Review, 1977), charging that Frankfurt misrepresents Descartes? view of God? s nature and power. According to La Croix, Frankfurt holds that, in claiming that God created the eternal truths and could have done the opposite with respect to establishing the law of contradiction, Descartes conceived of God? s power as extending beyond the laws of...
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Son Of God Mortal Sin
1,465 wordsCan the descriptions of God, claimed by the Bible, be proven? In Descartes? Meditations, Descartes logically proved the existence of an infinite and truthful being. The Holy Bible describes God, our creator. I plan to compare the logically proven infinite being (God) and the Biblical God and see if their traits mirror each other. If they do then it would prove, if not give strong evidence, that they are one in the same. First I will restate Descartes? proof of an infinite and truthful being. P 1...
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Artificial Intelligence Truth Value
4,299 wordsMachine Learning In Artificial Intelligence Essay, Research Machine Learning In Artificial Intelligence This assignment will explore some traditional philosophical problems surrounding induction, and use them to consider the application of inductive programming techniques in Artificial Intelligence. It will conclude that the implementation on machines have been encouraging, but that the nature of induction itself will prevent a completely successful Show the broad problems underpinning induction...
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5,990 wordsMaterialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Materialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Mind A MATERIALIST RESPONSE TO DAVID CHALMERS THE CONSCIOUS MIND Paul Raymond Stanford University In this paper I will examine and criticize the arguments David Chalmers gives for rejecting a materialistic account of consciousness in his book The Conscious Mind. I will draw upon arguments and intuitions from the three main schools of thought in the philosophical study of consciousness (a) fo...
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Christian God Divine Revelation
4,122 wordsThe Errancy Of Fundamentalism Disproves The God The Errancy Of Fundamentalism Disproves The God Of The Bible The Errancy of Fundamentalism Disproves the God of the Bible 1. Introduction This essay will investigate the often-made claim from Christians, that the Bible is the inspired word of god, a corollary of which is that it is perfectly without error. This view is exemplified by the following statement of Jimmy Swaggart, a Pentecostal pastor: One of the most basic tenants of the Christian fait...
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True Meaning Scientific Inquiry
1,677 wordsThe Search for Truth What is metaphysics? The question itself is a study in the answer, as to question the meaning of truth is to compare and contrast it to all that we perceive from our senses as real. The principle of verifiability was at the core of Logical Positivism, the movement that sought to apply logic and the methodology of the empirical sciences to all fields of thought. It states that a theory, or more generally a sentence, that is not at least capable of empirical verification is me...
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