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Analysis Of Michael Shermer Fallacies
1,466 wordsAnalysis of Michael Shermer's Fallacies In Why People Believe Wierd Things, Michael Shermer discusses many issues such as pseudoscience and superstition, which continue to permeate our modern society. He describes twenty five fallacies that have lead people to believe in things that are not true, and are often completely illogical. Two of these major fallacies include the idea that the unexplained is inexplicable, and that people do not correctly put the burden of proof where it belongs. These a...
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9,023 wordsHow doesDescarte 2 Descartes How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts that he has raised? Does he succeed? by Tom Nuttall [All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from the 1995 Everyman edition] In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has called the project of Pure Enquiry to discover certain, indubitable foundations for knowledge. By subjecting everything to doubt Descartes hoped to discover whatever was immune to i...
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