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    Plato's Argument Analysis

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    To Plato‚ there existed fundamental patterns in the universe‚ Forms so pure and unblemished that most people will never know them‚ even as they act as existence in its purest form. All around us‚ everyday objects toe the line between these pure existences‚ never committing to one yet never abandoning one. To those few who could gaze upon these paradigms and look beyond the pale imitations in every object‚ Plato gave the name Philosophers. In the Book V of the Republic‚ Plato’s definition of philosophers

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    Professor Cooper English101FYE5 22 November 2013 Legalization Lincoln once said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation‚ and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.” The prohibition of marijuana has proven to be a failure and a waste of resources. In addition‚ prohibition has hurt society more than it has helped. Also‚ marijuana can be used as a medicine to treat many life threatening illnesses. The legalization of

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    Design Theory Argument

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    trivial and that of humans poor imagination. I will use Tim Holt’s “Philosophy of Religion” to show how believing in God is more logical than not. Russell uses a few arguments to try an disprove the existence of God in “Why I am not a Christian.” I will address the “First Cause Argument‚” the “Design Theory Argument‚” and the “Morality Argument.” I will touch briefly on what Russell believes and then use common and widely accepted theories to refute Russell. Russell uses many reasons to support his

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    Opponents tend to redefine Descartes’ argument into the following syllogisms: (1) I think; (2) Where the thinker is present; (3) Therefore I exist. Those critics thought that Descartes cannot say “I” first‚ because this seems to add his subjective wills‚ tacitly approved in his mind. Also‚ the ‘Therefore’ makes the argument look like a premises of the conclusion. Critics argue that Descartes cannot give the conclusion an owner. He may say “thinking is being implementing” and “existing

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    Descartes’s conclusion in Meditations‚ that it is possible to gain knowledge‚ is flawed and incorrect based on his faulty reasoning. First‚ I will restate Descartes’s logic for believing knowledge is possible. Next‚ I will introduce flaws I can see surrounding his argument and show the weakness of his position. Finally‚ I will give my reasons for supporting the notion that it is not possible to gain knowledge beyond the notion that I am a thinking thing. Descartes’s Argument Descartes’s argument for knowledge

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    Argument Analysis

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    while listening to Anthony citing the risk of machine learning in the workforce. For example‚ would it be ethical for a business owner to lay off half of his workforce in favor of new a software program that can do the same job but for half the cost? Sure profit

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    Outline Of Rowe's Argument

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    Outline of Rowe’s Chapter on the Argument from Contingency in His Philosophy of Religion‚ Part II Notes on Rowe on the Cosmological Argument‚ Part Two: Four Criticisms of the Argument 0. Review 0.1 Dependent beings: a being whose existence is accounted for by the causal activity of other beings 0.2 Self-existent beings: beings whose existence is self-explanatory‚ or accounted for by their own inner nature 0.3 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR): There must be an explanation for (a) the

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    imperfection argument is concerned with the existence of forms and our possession of priori concepts that is knowledge that is not gained from empirical evidence but rather through deduction. Plato basis the argument on the imperfection of sensible objects and how we make judgments about them. He denotes the forms to being the perfect object and stresses that the sensible ones are only imperfectly approximate meaning although they seem holistic they are lacking. He focuses on the form of equality

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    Argument Paper

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    mother would use the child support for other reasons than for the child. For example‚ paying bills‚ buying themselves clothes‚ and getting their hair and nails done. Another example is when I was younger and my father was just getting out of jail my mom put my dad on child support as so as she was able to and it was unfair. Every time she got child support for me she would use it on paying her bills instead of buying me clothes and doing things for me when needed. Also I use to visit my dad for half of

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    From the arguments discussed in class‚ I choose to evaluate Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument. Aquinas offers a believable case for the existence of God through five arguments. The arguments are “a posteriori arguments” with five strategies (Aquinas 52). The first argues that there is an unmoved mover that originated all motion but the mover‚ itself‚ does not move. The second argument concludes: “there must be a first cause to explain the existence of cause” (Aquinas 52). The third argument says

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