A SEMINAR PAPER ON LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS PRESENTED BY: AKOMOLAFE OLUWATOBA M. MATRIC NO: 187189 COURSE CODE: PHI 702 COURSE TITLE: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURER IN CHARGE: Dr. Afolayan LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS NATURE OF METAPHYSICS In everyday discourse‚ “Metaphysics”
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1. Question : (TCOs 2‚ 7 & 9) Determine which one of the rhetorical devices or fallacies covered so far in our course occurs in the passage below. In a court proceeding: "My client is a single parent and the sole provider for her six children. A guilty verdict will cause irreparable damage to her family. If she is sent to prison‚ her children will be deprived of the love and care they need from a mother. Please‚ for her children’s sake deliver a verdict of not guilty." Student Answer:Scare tactics
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Through the Looking Glass: A Logical Look at Spectrophobia Lilli Munoz PSY/211 May 9‚ 2013 Professor Gromoll Through the Looking Glass: A Logical Look at Spectrophobia The human brain is an amazing thing. It is always working; learning and processing. With technology the way it is now‚ people are in constant contact with each other and media. It is then easy to see how someone’s conscious and subconscious mind is taking in what is seen and heard‚ learning‚ and then arranging their behavior
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Definition: Positivism refers specifically the philosophy espoused by Auguste Comte and generally to later philosophies which are based on that. Comte argued that human thought proceeds through three stages: theological‚ metaphysical‚ and positivistic. The first‚ theological‚ involves trying to explain all phenomena through the direct operation of supernatural beings and divine forces. The second‚ metaphysical‚ is similar to the first‚ but those supernatural beings have become more abstract and
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theory best applies to the Levy Family video case The theory that best applies to the Levy family can be found in “Behaviorism Social Learning‚ and Exchange Theories.” Through these theories we are taught external conditions‚ reinforces‚ and models can significantly affect/shape one’s behavior; however‚ we are often unaware of this (Robbins‚ Chatterjee‚ & Canda‚ 2012). Behaviorism and exchange theories has its benefits as it allows for the use of behavior modifications techniques through the use
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According to Gary Curtis‚ a logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. (Curtis‚ 2012) There are‚ at least‚ ten of them that we know of. Many dieting commercials‚ like Nutri-System‚ can lay claim to a few of them. I believe that Nutri-System uses appeal to popularity and appeal to emotion. The appeal to popularity comes from the use of Jennifer Hudson and Marie Osmond touting them and the appeal to emotion comes from the need of obese women to lose weight. The fallacy comes in because a normal
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Response to Hannah #1 Logical Validity can be very tricky when it is use in a philosophical way. When dealing with logical validity‚ it needs a common‚ everyday argument. Logical validity can be use to figure out any honesty out of an argument. By doing so‚ you’ll need to have an argument with sentences that will support a conclusion. From the book‚ Sentential Logic‚ by Professor Roy‚ the definition of logical validity is‚ “the argument is logically valid if and only if there is no consistent
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accurately gathered. Basically data modeling can fall into two types of categories: Physical modeling and Logical modeling. Logical modeling deals with gathering business requirements and converting those requirements into a model. The logical model revolves around the needs of the business‚ not the network‚ although the needs of the business are used to establish the needs of the network. Logical modeling involves gathering information about business processes‚ categories of data‚ and organizational
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Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) LFA is an analytical‚ presentational and management tool which can help planners to: * analyse the existing situation during project preparation; * establish a logical hierarchy of means by which objectives will be reached; * identify the potential risks to achieving the objectives‚ and to sustainable outcomes; * establish how outputs and outcomes might best be monitored and evaluated; * present a summary of the project in a standard format;
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B.F. Skinner‚ who favored the behaviorist approach to psychology‚ criticized the psychoanalytical theory by suggesting that psychology should be the study of behavior and not just the mind. However‚ Skinner’s approach was radical‚ in that he did consider our inner thoughts and feelings‚ but denied that they had anything to do with behavior. His study of behavior involved close contact with the experimental laboratory‚ where he experimented with small animals such as rats and pigeons. As the experimenter
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