Epistemology – The Study of Knowledge Jeff Castro PHI 200 Dr. Akins February 4‚ 2013 Epistemology – The Study of Knowledge The study of knowledge has always been the journey toward truth and understanding. Epistemology deals with the creation and distribution of knowledge in certain areas of inquiry. Humans should be free to gain‚ study and question knowledge and claims without repercussions in any social‚ cultural or religious setting. As we move forward in our understanding of
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really that clear and easy? How can one really know for sure that they aren’t sleeping and simply dreaming about reading this text? René Descartes argued that you couldn’t‚ but he wasn’t satisfied with that answer and rejected the idea of former skeptics that we can’t possibly know anything for certain. He made it his goal to find something we couldn’t doubt‚ something indubitable. René Descartes is a famous French mathematician‚ scientist and philosopher from the 17th century‚ often called “the
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witnessed how resistance to pursuing marketing research had been voiced within prospective client companies. Sometimes‚ skeptics of taking a professional approach sounded warnings about “how enough was already known about customers to make decisions”. Other times‚ skeptics would assail the sampling methods of studies in attempting to dismiss the results. While at other times‚ skeptics would merely claim that answering such questions about customers would be too expensive to obtain. In sum‚ professionally
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During the mid-1600s‚ or the Age of Reasoning‚ Blaise Pascal authored “The Wager‚” to convince others of the time to decide whether or not they believed in the existence of God. Pascal sought to convince the religious skeptics and people of Libertine lifestyles to “wager” their belief that God exists. The hedonistic and self-pleasurable lifestyle led by the Libertines had a tendency to not have any significance or relevancy to the lifestyle of religious devotion. He argued that one is unable to determine
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Nature of sex education But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in Me‚ it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck‚ and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. — Matthew 18:6 The nature of sex‚ itself‚ must first be grasped if we are to estimate the damage done to the souls of children by the so-called sex education in the classroom — damage not only from the moral point of view‚ but also from the one of human integrity and spiritual
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to feel loyal to the queen‚ Elizabeth I can more easily rally them to her cause. She associates the concept of war with honor so that the combatants can feel pride in doing their civic duty in protecting their homeland. She sharply criticizes those cynics who fear the "treachery" of England’s armed forces‚ and‚ in so doing‚ she hopes that they can place their trust in her as she claims to do in them. Additionally‚ she makes the concept of sacrifice seem honorable‚ as she knows that the imminent battle
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and the phraseological unit "at all times" also attract our attention‚ for "at all times" is used in official notices and stresses the seriousness of the author’s intention. And "notorious" puts more emphasis on the fact the narrator has been very skeptic‚ and that’s why his words‚ notwithstanding their incredibility‚ deserve the readers attention. Further he continues to convince us: "No person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the sever precincts of truth by ignes fatui." "ignes
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Test Study Guide Terms Tribe – a tribe is a group of families. Patriarch – Patriarch--the dominant male leader of the tribe. Civilization – Civilization means: shared beliefs social and political organization art. Bronze – Bronze was an alloy of copper and tin. Cuneiform – cuneiform--meaning “wedge shaped.” Hieroglyphics – hieroglyphics--"sacred coverings.” Aton – Aton was a universal god who took the form of the sun disk. Yahweh – Yahweh---“He causes to Be” Moses – Moses
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Philosophy emerged as an alternative or innovative type of thinking that harbored a path towards logical reasoning rather than following stories of religions and deities. Greek philosophers began to contemplate the world and the ideas behind it which led to experimentation‚ discovery‚ and further questions and understanding. Greek philosophers such Pythagoras‚ Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and others paved the way for advances in science‚ logic‚ reasoning‚ mystic beliefs‚ mathematics‚ moral and ethical
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