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Computer Programs Basic Skills
532 wordsIn Attacking Faulty Reasoning, T. Edward Date defines an argument as a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) support or provide evidence for another (the conclusion). The premises of an argument are those statements that together constitute the grounds for affirming the conclusion. To more clearly understand the argument given in the news release from the Normaltown paper, it should be placed in an easier to read form, consisting of just the premises and conclusions. The Norma...
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Capital Punishment Bad Policy
1,252 words... There is no clear empirical support that says there is a lot of racial discrimination in the sentencing of those arrested and convicted for murder. Van den Haag does point out the unequal distribution of the death penalty when it comes to the race of the victim, however he says that this favors Blacks because those accused of a Black murder (which are usually Black) are more likely not to be put to death than are person who kills a white. These arguments seem to be very solid and to me are m...
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Todays Society Students Learn
929 wordsIn his article, The Decline of the Knowledge Factory: Why our colleges must change, the author, John Tagg, is explaining how colleges in todays society are neglecting the undergraduate education. Tagg claims that people are sending their children to college to learn and prepare for their future careers; however, the amount of learning is astonishingly low. Tagg feels that American colleges are failing because they have become more interested in the number of credits students have than in what th...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Secondary Qualities
1,261 wordsLocke's Theory on Primary and Secondary Qualities Locke is interested in the role of experience in the search for knowledge. He is an empiricist. He believes that our senses are the only basis for knowledge. He sees the human mind as white paper, void of all characters without any ideas prior to experience. (pg. 104) In order to understand Locke's conception of primary and secondary qualities we must focus on five key points. First, I will examine what ideas are and how they are caused by qualit...
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Happened In The Past Good Argument
941 wordsIn David Humes paper " Of Miracles, " Hume presents a various number of arguments concerning why people ought not to believe in any miracles. Hume does not think that miracles do not exist it is just that we should not believe in them because they have no rational background. One of his arguments is just by definition miracles are unbelievable. And have no rational means in believing miracles. Another argument is that most miracles tend to come from uncivilized countries and the witnes...
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