ARTICLE REBUTTAL: Can we trust what we read? ARTICLE REBUTTAL: Can we trust what we read? When reading an article people do not normally question the credibility‚ reliability‚ validity or the fallacies of what is being read. People are constantly exposed to information through media outlets such as radio‚ internet‚ and/or television. But where does the public draw the line on what they can trust? Readers rely on the author to give them correct information. The article “What Two Pediatricians
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society. The evidence presented here will show that the written word and literacy are in fact declining‚ and the statistics strongly infer that the rise of the image can contribute to intellectual decline. But in order to see the issue more clearly‚ we must look at two of the main culprits in this evolution‚ television and the Internet‚ and see their effects on literacy. In the 1930s television was introduced to the United States as the first form of the moving image. Since then the television
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Love is Like Water‚ We can Fall in it‚ We can Drown in it‚ But we can’t Live Without it Men are born inferior to women. Now I’m Sure there are many men who disagree‚ however it is a scientific fact. Any person born with the ’y’ chromosome is born inferior. The conflicting views of men and women have been questioned and debated for centuries. For many years it is said that the male species are superior to women. It wasn’t until August 18‚ 1940 men deemed women smart enough to vote and have our
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our background and circumstances might have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we become What I’ve Learned: ~that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life. ~that we are responsible for what we do‚ no matter how we feel. ~that either you control your attitude or it controls you. ~that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry‚ but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel. ~that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. Many things we see and understand can be affected by the society we live in‚ the beliefs we have‚ and our perceptions of the world. What I am going to try and do in this essay is discuss whether we see things and understand things not as they are‚ but as we are. In this essay‚ I will discuss several external factors which affect people and‚ therefore‚ interfere with of
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“We see and understand thing not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. This quote states that a person’s understanding is not objective‚ as it is affected by several factors. The statement speaks about seeing and understanding seeing and understanding refers to perceiving. Perception is the process where sensory stimulations is translated into organized experience . The quote mentioned above says that it depends on what we know and how we are
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of knowing anything about the external world.” Discuss. The radical sceptical hypothesis cited in the question above has been a source of epistemic frustration since the time of Plato‚ and has gripped philosophical interest through Sextus Empiricus‚ Michel de Montaign‚ up to Descartes whose Method of Doubt employs the most famous formulation of the Dreaming Argument‚ which goes from an unexceptional premise to the extraordinary conclusion that we have no knowledge at all. The claim in question
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‘We see and understand things not as they are but as we are’ Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing The typical description of a nice day outside includes lush green grass and clear blue sky. Everyone can relate to it‚ we see the colour‚ we can smell the scents and we can feel the texture. Yet do we see colour and smell the scents? Or does colour and scent exist in the world and all we as humans do is simply comprehend them? Is the day really a nice day? Or are we just in
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When we are trying to understand something‚ we sometimes rely on our senses and use reason to seek for the truth. We also use intuition to discover unknown things. As environment and culture may affect people’s way of thinking‚ people from different backgrounds may interpret things differently. People from the same background can even have different personal experiences‚ which also affect people’s understanding of the surroundings. No two people have exactly the same idea and we try to understand
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Surviving “We are so busy making a living that we forgot to make a life.” This statement is one of the best descriptions of Hong Kong dwellers. There are multitudinous researches have stated that Hong Kong is one of the fastest pace of living‚ one of the cities having the most expensive land price in the world‚ one of the most stressful city…etc. I believe these “one of the” can explain why Hong Kong people are so unhappy. In the following paragraph‚ I would like to discuss the contradiction
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