On the stage of philosophy concerning meta-ethics‚ the Moral Error Theory followed in Hume’s footsteps and made significant breakthroughs with J. L. Mackie’s Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong and Richard Joyce’s more recent The Myth of Morality. They both argue that i) moral judgments presuppose objective and categorical moral values and ii) this presupposition is false since there are no such things. Therefore‚ they conclude‚ moral judgments are systematically false. Although Mackie offers an argument
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Synthesis of Methyl Stearate The purpose of this lab was the convert liquid methyl oleate to solid methyl stearate by catalytic hydrogenation. Firstly‚ we produced hydrogen gas using solid mossy zinc and sulfuric acid. Using the hydrogen produced in the previous reaction‚ we were able to convert the liquid methyl oleate to solid crystals of methyl stearate. A mineral oil was also used to bubbler was used to maintain the hydrogen pressure slightly above the atmospheric pressure and to prevent back-diffusion
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ABSTRACT This experiment was conducted to synthesize methyl benzoate form benzoic acid and methanol by using the Fischer esterification method. The Fischer exterification technique is utilized in the academic and industrial settings due to the simplified synthesis and safety parameters of the overall reaction. Both benzoic acid and methanol are relatively cheap to obtain from a commercial source as well as being easy to store with a relatively long shelf life. The Fischer esterification method is
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Trouble herein (L&T) and You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down herein (Good Woman). Many of the main characters in these stories are left unnamed; this offers the reader the opinion that the unnamed character is Alice Walker herself. Critic Alice Hall Petry discusses the differences between the short stories in Walkers L&T and her stories in Good Woman‚ asserting that the stories in the first collection are much stronger that those in the second. (Petry) The works contained in L&T‚ are stories of
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220 CHAPTER 8 UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH METHODS‚ POPULATIONS AND SAMPLING What sampling method was used in the above study? Could you write a short critique of that sam pling method? What population was used in the study? How well do you think the sample selected represents the population? Do you agree with the authors’ claim that there was a close fit between the population of the study and the sample of that population included in the study? What do the authors mean when they state that
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For the first part of the experiment‚ it began by weighing 4.0ml of methyl salicylate into a flask—a stir bar was added. While stirring‚ 40ml of 6M sodium hydroxide was added and the solution was heated and boiled for about 15 minutes. After the 15 minutes‚ a bit of water was used to wash down the sides of the flask and the solution was cooled. It was boiled for another 15 minutes‚ after this the solution was cooled for 5 minutes in an ice water bath. While the flaks was in the ice bath‚ 50ml of
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Lab 8- nitration of Methyl I Benzonate Date of experiment: INTRODUCTION: The nitration of methyl benzoate is an example of an electrophilic aromatic substation reaction. In the experiment the electrophile was the nitronium ion and the aromatic compound was methyl benzoate and with addition of nitrating solution Methyl 3-nitrobenzoate was the product. Methyl benzoate Methyl 3-nitrobenzoate MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY: The procedures for this experiment
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problems with the original Articles of Confederation and adjust things accordingly to the problems. This meeting would otherwise be known as the Constitutional convention and would go on for the next five months. One of the fifty-five delegates was William L. Pierce. William L.Pierce was on the the four delegates from the states of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention. He was forty-seven years old when being invited into the Constitutional Convention and being a part of it. William L.Pierce was born
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Preparation of methyl m-nitrobenzoate by nitration using methyl benzoate‚ nitric acid‚ and sulfuric acid Aileen Quintana TA: Sijie Tues/Thurs 11:50 42067 Introduction: The purpose of this lab was to explore the concepts of electrophilic aromatic substitution‚ specifically nitration by synthesizing methyl m-nitrobenzoate using methyl benzoate‚ nitric acid and sulfuric acid. This nitration is a type of electrophilic aromatic substitution. A
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Believe: A Detailed Look at Underlying Themes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a novel published originally in 1900‚ and written by L. Frank Baum‚ who also wrote thirteen to seventeen other books centering around the magical land of Oz. This children’s book spawned a Broadway Musical in 1902 and a film adaptation in 1939. It has also been the basic building block for plenty of other films‚ musicals and novels having to do with this imaginative world‚ such as Wicked; Oz the Great and Powerful; and
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