credibility of the facts in issue. In the Lethbridge College Mock Court Exemplar video (2004)‚ understanding the facts in issue‚ as well as‚ facts relevant to facts in issue can help the Crown when creating their package to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the accused committed the offence. Facts in Issue The facts in issue pertaining to this offence‚ Section 445(1)(b) of the Criminal Code‚ is “placing poison in such a position… easily consumed
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He allows his self-doubt and insecurities to blind him and persuade him to doubt Desdemona. Though Desdemona vehemently pleads her innocence to Othello and ultimately‚ with her final breathes‚ attempts to expunge his guilt by telling Emilia that she has smothered herself‚ Othello nonetheless doubts her love for him (606). Emilia eventually explains Iago’s cunning and unravels all of his lies to Othello. He then realizes how he was driven by jealousy and self-doubt and acted rashly. Encumbered
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different way. While Descartes used doubt and skepticism as a way to find out the foundations and roots of knowledge‚Hume used sleo contrast with what we saw as the ordinary claims of knowledge. Hume explains two types of skepticism: antecedent and consequent. Both of these come in a very moderate and extreme form. He explains antecedent skepticism by using the Descartes theory of universal doubt. He explains that there is no principle that is more self evident than doubt and even if there was we would
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of Doubt In the Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we find Descartes at a point trying to suspend all beliefs that he held from his youth by destroying his unstable house of knowledge to build a more concrete foundation of certainty. In an attempt to rid himself of skepticism of his own beliefs‚ Descartes devises the method of doubt to eliminate all his current beliefs that could not possibly be true‚ leaving him only with the things in which he could be certain of. In this‚ Descartes doubts all
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“Oedipus crux; reasonable doubt in Oedipus the King” by Kurt Fosso are three particular articles that have an appealing academic approach to the Oedipus trilogy. In Koper’s article‚ he mainly expresses how there is uncertainty in the crime committed by Oedipus; murdering his father‚ King Laius. In Shamir’s article‚ he makes an interesting comparison between Oedipus and Father Abraham. Similar to Koper’s article‚ in Fosso’s article‚ he tries to argue how there is “reasonable doubt” evident in several parts
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How Is Certainty Possible? Certainty is defined as being free of doubt. In philosophy is there such a thing that we know without any doubt? Do we know anything with absolute certainty? Although we may believe to have genuine knowledge in some cases‚ there are other cases in which we do not know‚ but only think we know. Now therein lies the problem‚ how do we distinguish what is absolutely certain and what is not? This is why the idea of knowledge and certainty is so important. Both empiricists
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Hume‚ unlike Descartes‚ did not experience the requisite of Cartesian doubt. It would be counter intuitive for Hume an empiricist to doubt everything when according to The Origin of Ideas knowledge is built on perceptions. The theory contends that an idea is a duplication of a mental impression. Hume highlights that when a lively perception of love‚ hate
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True Knowledge – Descartes vs. Plato Many philosophers have tried to figure out what exactly true knowledge is. For years they have been asking questions and looking deep into the mind to better understand the methods needed to get to true knowledge. If we go back to some of the earliest philosophers we meet Plato in Greece. Plato tried to take on the question himself in a fictional conversation he wrote up between Socrates and Meno‚ and in which we see some insight to what he believes it is
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the theme of reasonable doubt. A jury of twelve men are chosen to determine whether the eighteen year old boy killed his father or not. The initial evidence that includes two eye witnesses would suggest that this case is a closed decision and they boy will surely be found guilty. The jury does not take long before coming to a vote ending in 11 votes for guilty 1 vote for non guilty. The man who voted for not guilty saw loop holes in the evidence and in turn saw reasonable doubt to vote not guilty. As
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1. According to Descartes‚ the reason for hyperbolic doubt is to handle what he believes to be doubting everything. He feels if you were to doubt everything‚ you will a better base for true knowledge. He uses the example of Illusions‚ Dreams‚ and Evil Demons. Since Illusions and Dreams are a part of evil demons‚ if you were to defeated the evil demon you would also conquer Illusions and dreams. Descartes also explains if God were to exist‚ he wouldn’t allow an Evil Demon to trick us. Descartes begins
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