Scepticism about knowledge has been a problem in epistemology for centuries. One sceptical scenario holds that a person cannot actually know any ordinary piece of knowledge‚ such as the fact that they have hands. This is because it is possible that they are actually a handless brain in a vat being made to perceive an external world‚ when in fact they are only seeing computer images. Hilary Putnam argues that such sceptical scenarios are not actually problematic because the language used by handless
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knowledge a student should be obtaining. From the first day of school a student is taught that A’s are great‚ B’s are good‚ and anything lower is simply unacceptable. This concept of grades is drilled into the student at a young age because a young mind is more willing to please. With the concept that a high mark will please everyone around him or her‚ the student will strive for nothing but that mark no matter what the cost. A student will sit down with a textbook and cram for a test for hours before
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and internet trolling becoming a serious threat to public safety. Recently‚ the UK legislation has responded to trolling’s extremity by establishing longer sentences for those found guilty and convicted and universities like the University of Chicago have banned the use of trigger warnings in classrooms. With the public’s often radical responses to free speech one has to ask if it may cause so much harm and controversy that it’d be better off censored and restricted? On the other hand‚ how could something
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uniforms? Do you think all schools in the United States should have school uniforms‚ why or why not? In schools where students are obligated to wear school uniforms everyone generally looks the same every day‚ there is a slightly different style between boys and girls‚ but both are wearing the same colors. There is a belief that there should be no school uniforms; people don’t benefit from looking like everyone else every day. Most people are expressing themselves by what they enjoy wearing. America
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A favorite hobby of many people over the last few decades has been to lament over the moral decay of the young generation.They love to ramble on about the high teen pregnancy rate‚drug problems‚common teen suicides and homicides‚the rising tide of violence‚etc etc. They get hyped up when stories like Redwood City mother who allegedly arranged sex for her 13- year-old son wanting him to go to bed with a family friend instead of some "girls off the street." make headlines . The older generation always
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Ever since animals and humans have existed humans have always violated animal rights. Although not even the law states that animals have rights‚ every single day animals in farms get tortured and slaughtered and used for meat.Ever since animals and humans have existed humans have always violated animal rights. Although not even the law states that animals have rights‚ every single day animals in farms get tortured and slaughtered and used for meat. The meat that we eat gets processed and injected
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feel upset‚ mad or violated not being able to wear what they want to school. Students should have the right to wear what they please to school. At many schools‚ the dress code is unfair. It’s mostly only directed to females when it should be directed to males as much as it is to us girls. We should go to school to learn‚ not to be told we can’t wear what we want. This is causing students to get more and more angry about not being able to wear what they want. The dress code at most schools
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Do we have a Free Will? The brain is a powerful‚ mystical part of every living being. It controls what we think‚ what we do‚ and how we act. Every day we are faced with decisions. As a human being‚ we are given the intelligence and brain to make conscious decisions‚ whether they are good decisions or bad decisions. We have the free will to make them‚ but is our decision truly conscious? There are many things that influence or determine our behavior. The brain works in magical ways‚ sometimes with
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whether or not we have free will to choose how our life will turn out. This is something that philosophers have been discussing for a while now. Some say free will is just an allusion to us‚ yet; others say we do have free will. Choice is “an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.” This is something that we deal with each and everyday of our lives. We react to things in different ways which determine what outcome that happens afterward. The choices we make are
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