2/10/2013 Judgment JUDGMENT Enunciation Proposition It is defined as a mental process by which the intellect makes a pronouncement on the agreement or disagreement of ideas. It is also the process by which the intellect compares two (2) ideas. If the pronouncement is the agreement of ideas‚ it is called affirmative judgment. If there is a disagreement‚ then it is called negative judgment. By nature‚ a judgment‚ whether that is affirmative or negative‚ can be true or false. TRUE
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Racial discrimination? Well‚ what exactly does it mean? Racial discrimination involves treating someone unfavorably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race such as skin color. Race here can mean that people belong to different countries‚ castes or different geographical regions within a country. It is unlawful to harass a person because of that person’s race or color. Harassment can include offensive or derogatory remarks about a person’s
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Are Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God convincing? Do they have any value? Needless to say‚ Aquinas upset many of the popular theological ideas prevalent before him. Even though his work was unfinished at the time of his death‚ his ideas were brought into the theology of the church‚ giving Christianity a genuine intellectual and rational foundation. Aquinas’ work influenced the philosophical climate of the day and gave reason a legitimate place in Christian theology. One of Thomas’s
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Statement of Purpose Umang Moda ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ I admit the obstacle to writing a Statement of Purpose has been in not knowing how to begin with one. I start in this manner not on a whim‚ but from necessity. It was either this or facing the grim possibility that I would never finish with one. I have tried my best to not disseminate the differences on how one is written and how it ought to be written. As such‚ I
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THE VANITY OF AN APE IN A THIN SLICE OF COSMIC TIME By Chris Burrows Born in the hot summer of 87 to an accountant and nurse with an absurd pretence to create a pleasant and respectable appearance‚ I lived‚ as would be expected‚ a traditional middle-class‚ white childhood. By the age of sixteen‚ more formally known as the age of reason‚ I had established an anti-religious‚ political and cultural identity incompatible with that of my parents‚ thus consequentially aborted from the home unit and
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PKG The argument on whether god does or does not exist has been the topic of a lot of heated debates in these recent years. With the growing number of independent thinkers in todays society‚ the question still remains “Does God really exist”? Philosophers have contemplated and presented different arguments attempting to explain the question‚ “Does God Exist?” for hundreds of years there hasn’t been any rock solid proof that God does or does not exist. It is my opinion that the strongest argument
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Is beauty subjective or objective? Beauty‚ for me‚ is objective. Beauty is objective because I believe that beauty is beauty regardless of anyone perceiving it. In Plato’s idea or theory of forms‚ beauty is an unchanging‚ eternal and nonmaterial form. This means that beauty does not depend on how we perceive things through the use of our senses. Some may say that a thing is very beautiful and some may say that it isn’t at all. In this sense‚ our idea of the beautiful depends on how one appreciates
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“The Ethics of Belief” by William K. Clifford Clifford’s main thesis in “The Ethics of belief” is it it always wrong to believe something without sufficient evidence. It means people cannot believe and trust anything with no evidence to prove if it’s wrong or right. And also no matter what evidence is‚ wrong belief is wrong event. Like you can’t believe God because there’s no such evidence to prove the God is really exists. No one actually see the God and talk to s/he‚ to prove that God is
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The great chain of being was a Christian concept whose major premise was that every existing object in the universe had its place in a planned hierarchical order. Such an object’s place depended on its relative proportion of ‘spirit’ and ‘matter’. If an object contained less spirit and more matter‚ the lower on the order it stood. At the bottom of this scale stood various kinds of inanimate objects‚ such as metals‚ stones‚ and the four elements (water‚ fire‚ earth‚ and air). They would fall under
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• Small Italian town called Equino--born in 1227. • Pack him off to a monastery at the age of 5. • Aquinas is huge! This huge guy. The dumb ox was his nickname. • On the other hand‚ despite his physical presence‚ he was brilliant. One of the things he could do was read a book and memorize every word. • Sit in a lecture hall‚ at the end of the lecture‚ he could repeat it verbatim. • ARISTOTLE ○ Yes‚ there are forms‚ but they only exist in instantiated. ○ Most of his works were
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