a. Outline the Key Concepts of the Design Argument [21 marks] The design argument is also referred to at the Teleological Argument stemmed from the Greek work ‘Telos’ meaning end or purpose. It is an ‘A posterior’ argument (from experience) based on our empirical senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the
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Writing an Argument Essay An argument may be described by many as a heated‚ sometimes belligerent falling out by two sides. While others may simply refer to an argument as an intellectual exchange of two opposing views. Whatever side of the debate an individual find themselves‚ most can agree that the delivery and content of any good argument is paramount in its effectiveness. So‚ the question now becomes‚ how to convey an argument with the same fire and power as writing an argument essay? Here
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Constructing an Argument 1. Reason (Claim): Cost Warrant: This is true because the president wants to spend money on fixing the infrastructure but it may not be enough. Evidence: President Obama’s State of the Union address called for $500 billion divided to each state to try and repair and improve our national infrastructure. in florida alone The President’s plan includes $50 billion in immediate investments for highways‚ transit‚ rail and aviation‚ helping to modernize an infrastructure that
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Constructing an Account of an Argument In the article "Against School" (2003)‚ John Taylor Gatto debates that mandatory school is not educating our children but instead the schools are teaching them how to be manageable. He supports his claim by giving us personal accounts of what he has seen‚ examples of people who have been successful in life whom were not subject to the school system‚ and he also gives us text from other authors who support his views. Gatto’s purpose is to inform his readers
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Everything is an Argument‚ Chapter 4 Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos I. Logos- arguments based on reason‚ facts‚ or evidence a) Inartistic appeals- hard evidence - Facts - Clues - Statistics - Testimonies - Witnesses b) Artistic appeals- reason and common sense - Logic and reason - Mixed with Inartistic (What classifies as common sense?) - Occasionally arguments of future and past (predicting what will happen based on past events)
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Deductive Argument – Draft We live in an era of untold gasoline prices and frequent political dialogue about finding and using alternative forms of energy. Some of these alternative energy sources that are being bantered about and‚ in some places‚ implemented include solar‚ wind‚ and hydroelectric power. The majority of Americans would agree that all of these forms of alternative energy are safe and should be pursued as new means of powering the country. However‚ there is one well-known energy
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Wormald consistently and effectively uses evidence from both contemporary and modern sources to support her arguments throughout the article. Her evidence is largely used critically‚ with evaluation of source material appearing in either the main body of the text or in the footnotes. Consequently‚ this evaluation of evidence provides for a stronger and more convincing argument by demonstrating the reliability of her sources. Wormald is also able to acknowledge flaws in her evidence‚ but successfully
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not good if it does not properly hammer as it was designed. He holds that most people agree about what the good is “since both the many and the cultivated call it happiness” (Aristotle‚ 1985 p. 5). Unfortunately that is not the case. His function argument has been widely critiqued at nearly
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god through Aquinas’ Five Ways‚ the best argument I would choose would be the fourth way. Descartes’ argument in Meditations V‚ the Ontological Argument‚ he argues that: (1) The essence of God is to be a perfect being. (That is‚ I cannot conceive of God as not being a perfect being.) (2) Existence is a perfection. (3) Therefore‚ God exists. (Or I cannot conceive of God as not existing.) This argument goes hand in hand with Aquinas’ fourth way‚ the Argument from Degrees of Excellence‚ where Aquinas
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08 Assess whether the ontological argument demonstrates the existence of God. (30 marks) The ontological argument was first formulated by St. Anselm in the 11th century. It argues the existence of God from a deductive and a priori stance. God is a being than which none greater can be conceived. This is the response given by St Anselm to the fool in the psalm who believed there was no God. St Anselm the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Benedictine Order explained that for God to exist in the
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