Both scientists made their points using logical fallacies. As the viewer you can easily see the argument flaws in the person you disagree with. In the creationist debate Ken Hamm uses an appeal to authority by mentioning successful scientists who believe in creationism‚ such as the inventor of the MRI scanner and an Astronomer. He works hard to define terms differently‚ repeatedly in a circular argument. Only one thing in his debate made me pause‚ he discussed how the
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latter part of Descartes proposition namely ‘that is a mind‚ soul‚ understanding or reason’ (Ibid‚ 2000); conceiving it to be erroneous; for it ostensibly reads ‘I am thinking‚ therefore I am a thought’. This is condemned by Hobbes as a spurious argument for it does not seem logical to say a thinking thing equates its faculty of thinking. Nor is it logical to say ‘I understand‚ therefore I am an understanding’ (Ibid‚ 2000). Surely rather from Hobbes’ point of view‚ it is efficacious to contend ‘I
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obligation to the company? Loyalty at the base is a strong feeling of support or allegiance. Ronald Duska in his argument for whistleblowers on the basis that one does not have loyalty to a company. Duska defines loyalty as a relationship between two or more people (a group) brought together for mutual fulfilment and support Duska then focuses on loyalty within a group in order to make his argument against a company deserving the similar level of loyalty. “A group takes on an identity and a reality of
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3.1 The Incompatibility Argument: Relational Understanding of Self According to Roger Ames‚ “transplanting” human rights to China was doomed to failure because of the incompatibility between Chinese values and the Western human rights concept.36 Historically‚ he argues‚ the concept of rights did not naturally evolve in China‚ which leads him to portray Western human rights efforts as imperialistic. Indeed‚ the Western concepts of “rights” may indeed have posed a problem for Chinese society‚ when
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In the Republic written by Plato‚ Glaucon presented an argument concerning “the nature and origin of justice”. This argument has caused many beliefs and interpretations from Glaucon about justice. Glaucon presents his arguments by stating the four premises and what each one of them mean. His first premise is “It is by nature good to harm”. This premise is broken up into different meanings by nature‚ being referred to character individuality‚ good being referred to an enjoyable experience and harm
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People with self-control can control their emotions. During an argument‚ they control their natural tendency to become extremely upset or sad. However‚ temperate people in an argument understand that emotions will only make their argument worse‚ so they don’t have their emotions overcome them. Next‚ people with self-control suppress their desires to eat a whole pizza in one setting. They don’t eat
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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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questions a computer based on logic can answer. In an explicit argument‚ it would look something like this: humans have no limits to what logical questions they can
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Jozui’s argument in this quote is that advertising that use celebrities to endorse or promote the product is not effective at all and rather insulting to the person watching said advertisement. She also argues that because this is insulting to the consumer‚ there should be rules and guidelines for advertisers to follow so that the advertisement is more effective and does not at all insult the viewer’s intelligence at all. I agree with Jozui’s argument that celebrities endorsing and promoting products
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Dear John‚ I heard you were thinking of working in a care profession which is great I just wanted to fill you in on a few things which could help you. Health and social care work places have what is called a duty of care towards the people they look after that means they must do everything possible that they can to keep the people they care for safe from harm. It is not only the work place that needs to prioritise the safety‚ welfare and interests of the people using this
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