To what extent does Gaunilo’s criticism of Anselm’s argument succeed in demonstrating that the argument fails? Gaunilo‚ a Benedictine monk and contemporary of St Anselm was the first to raise objections to Anselm’s idea that God exists by definition‚ claiming within “On behalf of the Fool” that Anselm’s argument was not logical and needed to be discredited. Gaunilo famously claimed that Anselm’s conclusion that the non-existence of God is “unintelligible” cannot show that God necessarily exists
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It includes the analytic meaning of the subject that is contained in the predicate of the claim‚ as well as the synthetic meaning of the subject that is not contained in the predicate‚ known as the empirical truth. Emotivism is a form of non-cognitivism‚ making it the equivalent of expressivism as a whole. The verification principle states that something is only true if there
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This essay will focus on distinguishing the difference between what it is to be a material thing and a thinking René Descartes supports the claim that we as humans are made up of two separate substances‚ a mind and body‚ and this is what distinguishes a thinking thing or human being‚ from a material thing Peter Strawson critiques this argument and presents us with a strong rebuttal with two key arguments‚ the problem of the subject side and the identity and numerability argument. He is able to sway
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2. A predicate (the verb or action)‚ and 3. Subordinates clause (it a group of words that can stand alone and make sense). Fragment sentences are those that do not meet the three requirements of complete sentence. It may have too many parts or some parts are missing or the parts don’t fit together. These fragments can be fixed by either adding to them in order to complete a thought or by combining them with neighboring sentences. Three ways of fixing fragments 1. Find the predicate Locate
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*A noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person‚ place‚ thing‚ animal‚ or idea. Examples | * The cat sat on the mat. * Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week. * Cleanliness is next to godliness. * Plato was an influential philosopher in ancient Greece. * Please complete this assignment with black or blue pen only‚ and keep your eyes on your own paper.A noun can co-occur with an article or an attributive adjective. Verbs and adjectives can’t. In the following
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A allergy is a problem that makes you itch‚ sick‚ pollen and so on. So smoke can affect people with asthma. So people do scratch test to see if they have a allergic reaction to something 2. Doctors often give scratch test to check out the problem. 1. People have to clean barnacles off of there boats; if not they can use up to 40% more fuel increase. 2. Today people work has hotel clerks and fast food cooks. Some go back to school to get a degree. 3. Africa is like America; it has animals and
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link relatively equal parts of sentences. Correlative conjunctions are always found in pairs. An interjection is a word used to show feeling. An independent clause contains a subject and predicate and can stand alone as a sentence. A dependent (subordinate) clause contains a subject and predicate but can’t stand alone. It depends
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A. rain B. beat C. roof 10. Which word starts the predicate phrase? A. rain B. beat C. roof Use for questions 11-18- Certain laws in our state protect many wild flowers. 11. In the sentence above‚ which word is the subject? A. flowers B. state C. laws 12. In the sentence above‚ which word starts the predicate? A. in B. protect C. many 13. In the sentence above
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Metaphysics The Problem of Universals The Ontological problem has occupied many philosophers and intellectuals since the very beginning of human thought. What seems to be a simple and rather ridiculous question to the average person‚ ‘what exists?’ or ‘what is there?’ serves as the general question for the ontological problem. Almost everyone accepts the existence of physical objects‚ to which I will now refer as ‘particulars’. Actual pencils‚ buildings‚ cats‚ humans and planets are all examples
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II DISCUSSION 1. COLLOCATION and IDIOM A. Collocation Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary‚ collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance. Collocation is a term to refer to words that tend to appear together or words that tend to keep company. Frequent examples of collocation are onomatopoeic words‚ that is‚ words which are formed by imitating the sounds associated with the thing
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