University of Phoenix Material Dawn Bratthauer 11/19/2012 Final Exam: Fallacies‚ Assumptions‚ and Arguments Part I: Fallacies THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS CONTAIN VARIOUS KINDS OF FALLACIES. EVALUATE EACH AND IDENTIFY THE FALLACY USING THE MATCHING LIST ON PAGE 2. 1. We can recognize that athletes who participate in sports must be given special consideration in our grading system‚ or we can let the university sink into athletic oblivion. H. False dilemma 2. I don’t know what colleges
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voice was pounding at me. All eyes were upon Jonathan Edwards while he preached. Listening to Edwards’ lecture was as if the Lord himself was speaking to me. That day I listened to the most powerful sermon I would ever hear. As soon as I walked into the church‚ I could feel how tense the room already was. My two children grabbed my hands‚ fearfully‚ as we walked into the room filled with emotion. We searched for a place to sit. Pastor Edwards had already started his sermon‚ so we sat in the back
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Jonathon Edwards knew what he intended to be understood when writing his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God." He makes the audience of the eighteenth century grasp onto their chairs and look away in fear of the sight or sound of hell. He wants to make sure the audience is aware of heaven and hell‚ so they may achieve the "right one." Edwards scares the audience to believe that God can do away with them at any second. He uses dramatic comparisons to show the wrath of God. To make
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Rhetorical Analysis: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Preacher Jonathan Edwards does a great job at devoting the audience’s attention towards his speech. During the message‚ Edwards emphasizes that people will go to hell‚ but if you’re saved by the grace of God then the idea of spending eternity in the flames is dismissed. Although his choices of words were harsh‚ he managed to keep the audience entertained. Jonathan Edwards began his sermon towards the Puritan congregation by trying to
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1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The sermon is addressed to the congregation. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? People are wicked sinners‚ and God’s wrath is infinite and arbitrary. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people‚ according to Edwards‚ are not in the hands of this angry God? How is this state achieved? Reading the sermon he claims that‚ “Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart‚ by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you
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“Not so fast!”‚ one might say. The sorts of Biological Conventions I described might well be necessary for Logical Conventionalism‚ but they do not entail it. In fact‚ we do not even have a story about how possibly Biological Conventions (i.e.‚ biological rules for the assignment of meanings to logical idioms) can make Logical Conventionalism (i.e. a thesis about the truth-makers of logical sentences) true. Don’t we need a story of how could it be true‚ to conclude that the case against it is not
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One of the most apparent logical fallacies in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ is called “No True Scotsman‚” or rather‚ an appeal to purity to emphasize an argument. The play is set in a small town in Massachusetts in the late 1690s. This setting is well known for its overbearing Puritanism and its government that could almost be characterized as a theocracy. As a result of this emphasis on religion‚ the characters of the play often resort to fallacies that hold religious beliefs at the forefront of
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Sinners in the hands of an angry God by Jonathan Edward Author Jonathan Edward * Is a Christian preacher and theologian. * He is well known as widely acknowledged to be America’s most important and original philosophical theologian‚ and one of America’s greatest intellectuals. * He is famous for delivering the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚” a classic of early American literature. Genre * Sermon Historical Background * This was written during the revival in
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Topic No 3: The Logical Framework Revisited Course Lecturer: George M. Onyango February‚ 2013 MASENO UNIVERSITY 1 http://ecampus.maseno.ac.ke/ PPM 859: Participatory learning and Action I Participation in Project Development 1. Introduction In the introductory course mention has been made of the Logical Framework. In this course we revisit the topic to be able to position it within the overall framework of M&E principles. This topic provides an overview of the Logical Framework approach
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In the sermon “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God‚” Jonathan Edwards expresses his strong urge for the people of his congregation to desperately wake up and realize that there really is a hell‚ and most people are probably going to hell because of their sin. Even though this was a sermon spoken out loud‚ he uses many different elements of style. Throughout his sermon‚ he speaks in second person‚ uses multiple similes‚ diverse sentence structure‚ includes a happy ending‚ and he has a very narrow-minded
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