Solving Spring 2013 Assignment 1 Short Argument (10%=Constructing A Short Argument) Purpose of Assignment • This is an individual assignment. • This assignment will help students understand the argumentation process involved in critical thinking. This assignment will also help students recognize key features and concepts in particular aspects of argumentation. Objectives • To help students articulate a short argument. • To help students understand key terms and
Free Critical thinking Problem solving Logic
sure. I made this comment to my philosopher friends George Berkeley and John Locke. They both looked at me and started arguing with one another on their beliefs. Their beliefs align with epistemology which is the study of knowledge. Part Two: Argument Analysis John Locke believed we are born with innate knowledge which is gained from experience. Locke said‚ “To this I answer in one word‚ from experience: in that all our knowledge is founded‚ and from that it ultimately derives itself”. Locke was
Premium Epistemology Philosophy Immanuel Kant
1. Who is considered the author of the Ontological argument? ANS: Saint Anslem 2. The first 3 “Ways” by St. Thomas Aquinas (to prove the existence of God) are called: a. argument from design b. argument from perfection c. cosmological argument d. none of the above. ANS: Cosmological argument 3. Explain the thrid way by Aquinas...which is called the argument from contigency. (2 or 3 sentences) ANS: Contingency can be explained as the possibility of things that come into being and go out of being
Premium Metaphysics Existence Ontology
characteristic the degrading and demeaning portrayal of the role and status of the human female...as a mere sexual object to be exploited and manipulated sexually (p.43)." Helen Longino ’s definition can be used as the basis of numerous arguments dealing with pornography. In this paper‚ I will deal with only one controversial aspect of pornography. That aspect is the censorship of pornography. Although Wicclair raises several reasons for being wary of the censorship of pornography‚
Premium Censorship First Amendment to the United States Constitution Definition
defending and supporting the barbaric deed. Even the strong main arguments in support of torture fall flat when stood up against its opposition. It is absurd to believe the ideas that supporters of torture come up with. Many of their arguments only work in very specific situations that may never happen. Should something as unspeakable as torture be allowed because of situations that most likely will never happen? The “ticking bomb” argument is the idea that in the case that there is a limited amount
Premium Salem witch trials Torture Terrorism
describe what an effective‚ sound argument is? Refer to how a speaker or a writer gives a good reason for the audience to believe the argument is true. 2. What is rhetoric? It is the art of persuasive writing and the use of figures speech and compositional method. Define the three major rhetorical appeals? Ethos – is a plea to ethics and the means of convincing somebody of the personality. Pathos – is a plea to emotion and a way of persuading spectators of an argument through making an emotional reaction
Premium Rhetoric Logos Aristotle
Argument Organizer Choose one of the following questions to answer for the argument essay in this module. Does our state do enough to prevent distracted driving? OR Can a Public Service Announcement (PSA) help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents? Part One 1. Write the claim you will present in your argument essay. 2. Write the counterclaim that you will refute in your argument essay. Part Two Identify research sources that you will use in your argument essay. Include at least
Free Mobile phone Text messaging Primary source
Fallacies in an Argument The essay “ Death” written by an anonymous author; presented in the text Read‚ Reason‚ Write published in the year 2008‚ is an example of a fallacious argument. In “Death” the author endorses the death penalty as a viable option for New York. This essay was written as a rebuttal to the editorial titled “New York on the Brink” that was posted in the Washington post it suggested that New York should not advocate the death penalty as law. The author argues that
Free Fallacy Critical thinking Attacking Faulty Reasoning
Analysis of Visual Argument The site visithoustontexas.com is a website designed to attract and convince tourists to visit the city of Houston‚ Texas and to provide information about current events‚ activities‚ and places to go while visiting the city as well as hotels and restaurants. The website includes a considerable amount of images of these places and events and each of these images are accompanied by a small descriptive text which‚ if followed‚ it will redirect to a section of the webpage
Premium Marketing Social media Management
Cameron Young Ms. Newsom Composition 1302 2 April 2012 Simply a Bad Case Is the outcome of our lives predetermined before we are born or by the environment in which we are born into or is it determined by our own free will? “These are some of the many questions that plague humanity‚ the questions that give philosophers‚ sociologists‚ scientists‚ and writers material with which to work” (Hicks). In the short story Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament‚ Willa Cather uses these questions to tell
Premium Narcissism Narcissistic personality disorder Willa Cather