In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography Franklin speaks of human reasoning‚ explaining how he himself reasoned his way to eating fish without eating animal food. Although Franklin does oppose his agreement of not eating animal food‚ he argues how humans are these “reasonable creatures” that can come up with a good reason for them to do what they want. A reason is like an excuse that can be used to get what you want. Franklin argues that humans are “reasonable creatures” that are enable to create
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Professor Michael Sandel discussed both “consequentialist moral reasoning” and “categorical moral reasoning” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). Sandel states that “categorical moral reasoning” is when you “locate morality in certain duties and rights” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). And “consequentialist moral reasoning” is when you “locate morality from consequences of your actions” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). Basically‚ “categorical moral reasoning” focuses on the “consequences”‚ after “action” is taken‚ before
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland deals with a theme of madness and reasoning. Throughout the book Alice‚ the main character‚ is trying to be logical‚ as she solves the problems she encounters in Wonderland. One of the most notable and obvious examples of this is her struggle with the question‚ “who in the world am I” (Carroll‚ 18). She breaks down the problem into simple true statements‚ such as “I think I remember feeling different”‚ before allowing these facts to lead to their eventual conclusion
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Cultural considerations in moral and ethical reasoning The sound development of moral reasoning and ethics is an integral part of the growth and maturation of a healthy and productive human being. Without morals and ethics‚ a person cannot exist within society’s boundaries and would be doomed to be forever barred from its hallowed walls for as long as that person did not conform to the societal norms of having the ability to morally reason and implement a set of ethics. But morals and ethics
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CASE BASED REASONING FOR CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM INTRODUCTION The Car Classify System is an intelligence system which applying Case Based Reasoning approach. This system was developing to classify the car class whether they are unacc‚ acc‚ good or very good (vgood). This system classified the car by calculate the similarities with the new data with the history data in the data base. The new data is data that key in by the user. The history data is the old data that get from the UCI Machine Learning
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society today. At first‚ I used to think that fallacious reasoning is a way in which we human beings think about a situation but to my surprise‚ I was proven wrong of what the real meaning fallacious reasoning is. Fallacious reasoning according to Purdue owl is a “common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument which can be illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points”. In general‚ to my understanding‚ it is a decline reasoning or argument which includes: Attacking a person‚ hasty
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Hypothetical and Scientific Reasoning VS Superstition In a large measure‚ science and superstition are polar opposites. Science is based on evidentiary support‚ objectivity and integrity‚ whereas superstition has very few of these. This is despite the fact that science originally evolved from superstition and theology‚ for example astronomy evolved from faith‚ chemistry from alchemy‚ etc. These were thought to be superstitions initially and only through a series of hypotheses‚ research‚ and argumentations
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Chapter 1 THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF REASONING ARGUMENTS Reasoning is the activity of making inferences. This is when you attempt to justify or prove one statement by appealing to another statement/s. To prove or justify a statement means to give a good reason for believing it.1 The statement that you are trying to justify is called the conclusion whereas the justifying statements are called premises. All reasoning has a conclusion (implied or explicit) and at least one (and typically more than one)
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205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth The article “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth” is written by Thomas L. Friedman. Friedman’s main point of this article is that there is no quick or easy solution to the climate change crisis. The whole going green trend is very popular in this day and age. Many people want the label as being a person who is helping our environment‚ someone who is making a difference in this over populated world. Little do they know that doing something as small as buying a flex
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is controlled by his “Id”. He lacks acceptance of his creation’s appearance suggesting that despite his use of dead body parts‚ Victor imagined his creation to be beautiful as he imagines himself to be beautiful. However‚ if Victor used logical reasoning he would understand the reality of his creation would be as horrifying and deformed as the idea of reanimating a dead body. Victor clearly cannot take the weight of his creation‚ “unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created‚ [he] rushed
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