Two Kinds Questions 1. Jing-Mei’s main dominant characteristic is that she wants to make it on her own independently regardless of her foundation of a Chinese-American. It is due to these circumstances and also the fact that her mother pushes her so hard that her characteristics are developed. She is very stubborn‚ rigid‚ and even harsh and cruel throughout the story. At times her stubbornness also led to her being very rebellious as well. 2. Due to the fact that her mother had a clear expectation
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2.2.5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Liebniz adds some clarification to Descartes argument in an attempt to strengthen it‚ he argue that’s Descartes has not asserted how coherent the idea of a “perfect being” is‚ Leibniz argues that unless this point is demonstrated then overall argument fails. In order to prevent this Leibniz attempts to analyze what perfection actually means‚ he concludes that this is an impossible task and concludes that it’s impossible to demonstrate all perfections are incompatible
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Response Paper H. J. McCloskey‚ a renowned philosopher in the mid 20th century‚ wrote a provocative article in 1968 titled‚ “On Being an Atheist”. McCloskey argues for atheism as the preferred and better belief system based upon his refutation of the theistic arguments. He argues against the existence of God by attempting to refute the cosmological and teleological arguments; as well he endeavours to discredit a God based upon the presence of evil. In doing this‚ he extends the boundaries for
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Discuss Putnam’s response to skepticism This essay aim to critically discuss Putnam’s response to the Brain in a vat argument.Based on the required reading by DeRose‚I will start by explaining a specific form of skeptical argument and what is “BIV”‚a skeptical hyphothesis which is famous in philosophy.Then I’ll explain Putnam’s response to BIV from the perspective of semantic externalism and analyse it.Finally‚I’ll reach a conclusion both on Putnam’s response and my understanding of BIV arument
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Throughout history philosophers and scholars have widely debated the theory of comedy and laughter‚ the types of laughter and the reasons why we laugh. In his essay “Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space” Timothy Morton‚ discusses his views on laughter and states that “comedy is the genre closes to the ontological structure of how things are” (332). Morton begins by proposing that “a thing is exactly what it is‚ yet never exactly as it appears” (Morton 322-323)‚ therefore‚ “since
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: Critical response 1 In the ‘Great Human-Rights Reversal; The Democratic left has conceded human rights to the conservatives’ ‚ a Wall Street Journal of 10 May 2012‚ the author Daniel Henninger states that the human-rights agenda has downgraded since Barack Obama became president of the U.S. Henniger initiates that human-rights issues fade away from the political left into ‘its home’ on the right‚ to the neoconservatives and the evangelical Christian activists. According to the author‚ the administration
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Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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DIVISIBILITY ARGUMENT This paper will discuss the dualism’s Divisibility Argument. This argument relies on Leibniz’s Law and uses a different property to prove the distinctness of brain states of mental states. Mary‚ who is a materialist‚ presents several objections to that argument. Her main objection corresponds to the first/third-person approach. She believes that Dave presents that argument only from the first-person approach‚ which is introspection‚ and totally disregards the third-person
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Response to McCloskey’s “On Being and Atheist” I respect individual worldviews‚ as I desire people to respect mine. At the same time‚ I do have the freedom of agreeing or disagreeing with ones that are deviate in nature from my own. One prime example is the worldview of H. J. McCloskey. Although I respect his worldview‚ and understand his reasoning behind it‚ I also disagree with it as well. McCloskey’s views are one of an Atheist. I am a Christian‚ and consider myself a theist who believes in
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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in
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