Doubt Essay Shanley’s thought-provoking‚ multi-faceted play‚ Doubt‚ can be described simply as a battle of diametrically opposed wills and belief systems (mainly that of Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn)‚ appropriately staged primarily in a “court-room style” setting. Those reading and watching the play are‚ in a way‚ forced to come to terms with and confront their principle beliefs as they grapple with the enigmatic concepts of judgment‚ morality‚ and of course‚ doubt. In the contest of
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F3:2.1: CERTAINTY OF OBJECTS & DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS 1. Introduction: The Purpose of the Certainty of Objects Requirement - For a Trust to exist‚ A must: (i) hold a specific claim-right or power; and (ii) be under a duty to B not to use that claim-right or power for A’s own benefit (unless and to the extent that A is also a beneficiary of the Trust). In other words‚ for a Trust to exist‚ A must be under the core Trust duty. The certainty requirements for a Trust simply reflect the fact that A must
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To follow blindly is to be ignorant in itself. Individuals must have doubt in everything they do. Being certain that everything is the way it is will lead to people becoming blind followers. Blind followers will only help assist in the crumbling of human civilizations. Individuals must doubt almost everything and learn to ask questions and learn why things are the way the are. Doubtfulness enables the person to think harder on their own and force them to think a valid thought on their own without
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Topic 1- Mathematics and Certainty Having said something about the nature of formal systems‚ we must now look in more detail at the nature of mathematical certainty. To do this‚ let us begin by making two distinctions. The first concerns the nature of propositions. An analytic proposition is one that is true by definition. A synthetic proposition is any proposition that is not analytic. So we can say that every proposition is either analytic or synthetic. The second distinction concerns how we
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How Is Certainty Possible? Certainty is defined as being free of doubt. In philosophy is there such a thing that we know without any doubt? Do we know anything with absolute certainty? Although we may believe to have genuine knowledge in some cases‚ there are other cases in which we do not know‚ but only think we know. Now therein lies the problem‚ how do we distinguish what is absolutely certain and what is not? This is why the idea of knowledge and certainty is so important. Both empiricists
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The Three Certainties * Knight v. Knight (1840); + Lord Langdale - To be valid as a trust there must be: a) Certainty of intention to create a trust – Is a trust intended as a q. of fact? b) Certainty of subject-matter – What property is to be subject to the trust and what are the beneficial interests? c) Certainty of objects – Who are the beneficiaries of the trust? (charitable trusts do not need to satisfy this requirement) * Why are these requirements necessary
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C. Wilson Com1102 Professor Green April 7‚ 2014 J.P. Shanley’s Doubt: A Comparison “In the pursuit of wrongdoing‚ one must step away from god.” (Shanley) These are the words that sum up the very being of our story. John Patrick Shanley wrote Doubt: A Parable (2004) and “Doubt” (2008)‚ though the tone is vastly different throughout the stories. Comparing the play and the movie will show how much can be added within the visual realm of the silver screen as opposed to the mental world of written word
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Summary of Doubt‚ A Parable The play opens with a Father Flynn giving a sermon about having doubts‚ or being unsure. Following the sermon‚ Sister Aloysius questions one of the teachers on her staff about the father. She then moves on to talk about a student. From the exchange between the nuns‚ it is clear that Sister Aloysius does not like Father Flynn. Though the teacher‚ Sister James‚ is kind-hearted‚ Sister Aloysius leads her to believe this is weakness. She also asks Sister James to watch Donald
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necessary to delineate the boundaries of its definition. It is in this context that I will discuss knowledge in the sense that implies certainty as the level of confidence I hold in its ability to reflect reality. Hereafter I will defend the notion that certain knowledge is impossible‚ as delineated by the theory of skepticism‚ and conclude by asserting that certainty is an unnecessary quality of knowledge in non-philosophical use. Let’s begin by examining the skeptic’s argument. Someone who holds
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by both certainty and doubt. Many of us are natural optimists and only see the good in things; by remaining positive‚ we are certain that everything will resolve itself. However‚ we can never be certain how every event will naturally play out so we result to realism. By doubting the outcome of an event‚ we not only remain realistic but prepare ourselves for an undesirable result. Both William Lyon Phelps and Bertrand Russell strongly support their stance on the difference between certainty and doubt
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