Outline and discuss the causal argument. Descartes casts everything into doubt in the first meditation‚ including God Himself. He then comes to this disproval of this theory therefore concluding that God exists. This is brought about through the causal argument. Desartes begins this argument with the causal principle. This principle states that there must be at least as much reality in the effcient and total cause as in the effect of the cause. Therefore a cause is essential for an effect
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Debate against Hitchens’s Concepts of Religion and Politics One of the most controversial man‚ Christopher Hitchens‚ in his letters‚ “Letters to a Young Contrarian” (2001)‚ implies that people of the contemporary society should avoid thinking other than for themselves by taking on the pathway of being a contrarian. His purpose is to help “individuals on how they think‚ and not what they think by making them a more independent and questioning person” (63). The letters take us through a pathway
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The claim that is introduced needs more evidence and numbers to back it up. As the argument is currently presented‚ it dismantles itself. It states that "many lives may be saved" if individuals were inoculated against the disease but that there is only a "small possibility that a person will die as a result of the inoculations." A person viewing this with a critical eye‚ can immediately see that in this language‚ the amounts of lives saved by this inoculation will far outnumber the potential deaths
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unknowable or altogether false. If one chooses to ignore this obvious fact‚ there is little that can be done to argue‚ for argument assumes that rational thought processes are at work. As Hank Hanegraaff has said‚ "Even those who deny reality look both ways before they cross the street." One popular example skeptics use to disprove attainable knowledge is the Brain in the Vat argument. "The Brain in the Vat scenario is a thought experiment designed to show the plausibility of radical skepticism. If we
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Everything is an Argument‚ Chapter 4 Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos I. Logos- arguments based on reason‚ facts‚ or evidence a) Inartistic appeals- hard evidence - Facts - Clues - Statistics - Testimonies - Witnesses b) Artistic appeals- reason and common sense - Logic and reason - Mixed with Inartistic (What classifies as common sense?) - Occasionally arguments of future and past (predicting what will happen based on past events)
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elaborates on his thoughts of time‚ following the given a responses an A‚ and B-theorist would say against Mctaggart; Lastly‚ choosing which of the two is predominantly more valid‚ and better against Mctaggart conclusion of time being false. McTaggarts argument against the realty of time is focused on arguing against the traditional mysticism about the nature
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and origin‚ many individuals such as John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh‚ had no problem with treating blacks like property. However‚ with religious‚ political‚ and general arguments‚ others like Theodore D. Weld and Henry David Thoreau‚ felt that slavery was downright unacceptable and inhumane. This subject was a key argument in many debates‚ which have shaped the way our society is run. Southern senator‚ John C. Calhoun‚ believes that slavery is not corrupt‚ but is suitable in society‚ saying
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philosophers is essential in illustrating the closest possible parallel in real life to his model city by taking account of the occasion of the argument and acting as the foundation of his argument. One of the main reasons Plato delves into this explanation
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The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily‚ the argument is based on some unwarranted assumptions rendering the invalid conclusion that the Mozart school is the first choice for parents. To begin‚ the conclusion is based largely on the perception that issued alternatives certainly lead to the higher efficiency of the school. In doing this‚ the author fails to mention other possible factors that can impress parent decisions. It is likely that the school tuition is very high regarding
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ignored. Pimps and organized crime figures‚ who regularly treat their workers on subhuman levels‚ would no longer control women. In some countries‚ prostitute rings buy and sell women on the black market‚ force their women to comply through violence and create unhealthy working conditions. When prostitutes operate independently and in secret‚ many times they become abused by their own customers. Legalizing prostitution would prevent underground prostitution that occurs today. When men want to pay for sex
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