Exam 1: Study Guide Thomson argues that a mother and child are (during pregnancy) not “two tenants in a rented house mistakenly rented to both” but rather the mother owns the house. The purpose of this analogy is to reveal that other parties cannot claim to be impartial when they claim they cannot decide who of the two (mother/child) should live. True False Thomson’s famous “people-seed” analogy is intended to be an argument from analogy in support of which view? All abortions are morally
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Levin’s analysis he states that‚ “Homosexuality is likely to cause unhappiness because it leaves unfulfilled an innate and innately rewarding desire.” This reasoning takes information from one fact and jumps to the conclusion of another. This slippery slope relies heavily on anatomy. Levin neglected human thought and pleasure‚ ultimately making his argument invalid. Nature made it possible for the human race to survive through the use of sexual organs. Levin’s description about the function of the
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The two theory that can be applied to this case is rights theory and virtues theory. However‚ both of these two theories lead to different ethical outcomes. While rights theory supports the sex robots being made and used by consumers‚ virtue theory goes against the selling and product of sex robots giving the standard argument that lewdness feeds on itself. First‚ virtue theory does not support the uses of sex robots. Virtue theory allows us to develop good moral characters. Some virtues that may
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The first section will analyse the argument from chapter 2 by identifying the marks of pseudoscience and the marks of a good explanation. The second section will be analysing the argument in chapter 5 by discussing some pseudoscientific marks‚ fallacies‚ rhetoric and cognitive biases that the argument includes. The analysis of these two arguments will show that the evidence provided by the author does not support the claims made about prehistoric space travel to Earth. Argument that the Unexplained
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Argumentative Fallacies "Writers of argumentative essays must appear logical or their readers will reject their point of view. Here is a short list of some of the most common logical fallacies--that is‚ errors in reasoning. Check your rough drafts carefully to avoid these problems. "Students sometimes ask‚ ’If a logical fallacy works‚ why not use it? Isn’t all fair in love‚ war‚ and argumentative essays?’ The honest answer is maybe. It’s quite true that speakers and writers do use faulty logic
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The hot topic that has been controversial recently has been the new policy for public bathrooms to be identified as gender neutral bathrooms. People who identify as a gender other than their biological sex are allowed to use the bathroom based on how they identify themselves. According to the M.D. Vliet (2016)‚ states “… opened a new Pandora’s Box of dangers to the public‚ especially for women and girls‚ with the new push for “gender neutral” public bathrooms” (para. 1). This recent issue has brought
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The essay aims to persuade the audience (i.e. tutor) against human cloning and expresses the author’s lack of competency in presenting his arguments. Based on the channel chosen to convey his message‚ the essay is‚ to a large extent‚ an ineffective piece of academic writing upon evaluation of its content‚ language and organization of arguments. This essay critique analyses and evaluates the above points. One of the essay problems includes the poorly developed thesis statement at the
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Nishant Jasani TOK essay 1 "All of the other Ways of Knowing are controlled by language." The author of this statement is claiming that the language we use controls all of our other ways of knowing‚ which are perception‚ emotion‚ and reason. This author is declaring that without language‚ we would not know anything. Our
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alert you to a number of ways in which reasoning fails. When you have finished this course‚ you may quickly forget the many names and labels but remain alert to failures in reasoning. Common Forms of Pseudoreasoning/Fallacies 1. Smokescreen/Red Herring 2. The Subjectivist Fallacy 3. Appeal to Belief 4. Common Practice 5. Peer Pressure and Bandwagon 6. Wishful Thinking 7. Scare Tactics 8. Appeal to Pity 9. Apple Polishing 10. Horse Laugh/Ridicule/Sarcasm 11. Appeal to Anger or
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FOOD PEDDLERS: Stop them for our children’s sake DO you know exactly what your children are eating while they are at school? Most parents are careful of their children’s diet‚ at home and at school. Many children bring home-cooked meals to school while some buy them at the school canteen‚ which is monitored by the school authorities and the Health Ministry. School canteens have a menu and price list‚ and under a directive from the Education Ministry‚ sale of junk food is prohibited. However
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