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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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True Or False Inductive Reasoning
1,257 wordsSimilarity in several respects between discrete cases. A logical argument by analogy relies upon an inductive inference from the supposition that things are similar is certain known respects to the likelihood that they are also similar in some further unknown respect. Example: "Jennifer enjoys listening to the music of Beethoven, Mahler, and Bartok. Susan and Harold also like Beethoven, Mahler, and Bartok. Chris enjoys listening to Beethoven and Mahler. Therefore, Chris would probably like the m...
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Monica Lewinsky Inductive Reasoning
1,607 words... or leave friends, children, or anyone else they love behind. Therefore, C Chivalry is alive. A. R. G. Conditions Conductive Argument P 1 A- known to be a priori true R- positive relevance P 2 A- matter of common knowledge R- positive relevance P 3 A- matter of common knowledge R- positive relevance P 4 A-known to a priori true R- positive relevance P 5 A- matter of common knowledge R- positive relevance P 1 - 5 G- all grounds for cogent argument Counter Argument P 1 A- Highly refutable, not ...
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Artificial Intelligence Strong Ai
1,667 wordsThe aim of this study is to show that John Searles premises from which he derived his Chinese Room argument are false, therefore, his claim that strong artificial intelligence is not possible is invalid. Partisans of strong AI claim that in a question and answer sequence, not only is a machine simulating a human ability but also: a. ) The machine can literally be said to understand the story and provide answers to questions b. ) What the machine and its program do is explain the human ability to...
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San Jacinto Four Hours
945 wordsSomewhere a teenaged kid is happily riding his skateboard trying to have a good time by fully living his youthful years, when he is suddenly grabbed from behind and forced to the ground by a police officer. Some would call this justice, but this innocent child has been vengefully harassed for a crime he didn't even know he was committing; a crime of being a skater. Most of us have never experienced such a horrific ordeal, but for a skateboarder this is a common reoccurrence that is happening way...
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Clear And Distinct Level Of Reality
1,373 wordsIn Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, he offers two main arguments from which he concludes the existence of God. In the Third Meditation, Descartes proposes his metaphysical argument, which states that God must exist, because his real existence is the only cause, which could have produced Descartes own idea of God. In the Fifth Meditation, Descartes contends that existence is contained in Gods essence, so a non-existent God is by definition, a contradiction. This paper will analyze the s...
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Hamlet Believes Killing Claudius
515 wordsHamlet wants to achieve two goals with respect to Gertrude. One is to express his anger against her, which he harbors for essentially the same reasons that he had it for Ophelia. Two is to somehow induce her to stop loving Claudius. This latter development would eliminate the possibility that Hamlet might feel estrangement from motherly love in attempting to kill or from succeeding in killing Claudius. After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved mother loves. ...
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Health And Safety Organised Crime
1,207 words... s resulted in a split, two-tiered sex industry evolving, with a tightly controlled legal sector operating alongside a large and often vulnerable illegal sector (Dobinson, 1992, cited in Sullivan, 1999). Thus one group of workers hold positions in the state-approved brothels, often claiming that they work in virtual slave-like conditions for the privilege of being 'state approved'. Those who cannot obtain employment in the licensed brothels work instead in the illicit underground sex industry...
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Criminal Activity Third Party
2,259 wordsRe: Fitzhugh v. Fairview Gardens Partners Cause of action in negligence against the owner for injury to a tenant of an apartment complex resulting from third party criminal activity. Question Presented Under Oklahoma state law, does a tenant of an apartment complex in a high crime area have a cause of action in negligence against the owner of the complex for injuries suffered from third party criminal activity when, the owner fails to repair inoperative lights near a common passageway, fails to ...
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Existence Of God Gods Existence
2,440 wordsNo one can think the opposite of that which is self evident But the opposite of the proposition God Exists can be thought therefore the proposition that God existence is self evident. (Thomas Aquinas) Some people may say that God is an omnipotent, omniscient being that the universe revolves around. In other words, God is all-powerful, all knowing, and runs the universe, but the mere claim, to prove Gods existence, seems to invite ridicule. The people who ridicule are not always right. They are t...
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Long Term Effects Prima Facie
4,853 words1. Introduction In this paper I wish to consider the following related questions: (i) Can a system of morality be justified? ; (ii) Why should one act morally? ; (iii) How can others be persuaded to act morally? Clearly none of these questions is new, and moral philosophers have proposed a variety of responses to them over the centuries without reaching any general agreement. Nevertheless, because these questions are fundamental to any practical application of moral theory, it is worthwhile to c...
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Deductive Reasoning Logical Thinking
1,524 wordsDo culture and individual beliefs affect logical thinking? If so, how do they influence the conclusions we reach? The first question that must be asked before answering this question is: What exactly is logical thinking? Logical thinking is the process in which one uses reasoning consistently to come to a conclusion. If this definition is strictly followed, logical thinking cannot be affected by any outside influences as long as the premises are truly valid. For example the syllogism: All mammal...
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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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Soul Building Evil Walk Around Barefoot Argument
1,054 wordsP 1) If God were to exist then that being would be all powerful all knowing, and all good (all PKG) P 2) If an all PKG being existed then there would be no evil. P 3) There is evil C) Hence there is no God derived Conclusion q Conclusion p qG? ? ? ? ? ? p? ? ? ? ? For this paper I am going to discuss Sobers schematization of the argument from evil. The purpose of this argument is to disprove the existence of an all knowing, all powerful, and all good god. Throughout the course of this paper I am...
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Criminal Acts Parking Lots
3,243 words(LANDOWNERS Premises Liability PREMISES LIABILITY (LANDOWNERS AND OCCUPIERS) I. Premises Liability Responsibility of Landlords and Tenants. Under the common law, a landlord was not liable for injuries sustained by third persons while on leased premises. Court decisions and statutes have since overridden this no-liability rule. Landlords owe a duty of reasonable care to tenants and third parties not to negligently cause them injury. This duty is based on the foreseeability standard of ordinary ne...
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