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Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

Reflection and Logic

lifetime of treasures and family "heirlooms" as special things, but things nonetheless. Though losing irreplaceable items is regr...

Bayesian Logic and CoffeeTime's 'Borrow Information'

houses in closer proximity to the university or financial district turn a better profit than those in more outlying locations (whi...

A Report Assessment

The three main goals of the project were " to encourage young people to: identify their (social, cultural, health or economic) nee...

Education and John Dewey

"in its interaction with the pupils present" (Garrison, 1999). Teachers need to do more than present the material in an orderly w...

Laws and Drugs

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

A Justification of Alien Abductioins from a Utilitarian Perspective

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

Islamic Terrorism In The World: Policy Analysis

The Islamic Jihad formed as a means by which to right the wrongs of government intervention. In the quest to separate what its me...

Ethos, Pathos and Logos in an Advertisement

with a car broken down in the dessert and a well known star in a tuxedo (P Diddy) on the way to an awards ceremony. The truck stop...

Critical Thinking and Logic

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

Programmable Logic Device (PLD) and VHDL

the design on a live circuit, in exactly the same format as it will be in the final device. This can reduce the time between desig...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Yangpin's Noodle a Case Study

with a 28 percent market share. The remaining market share of 15% is shared by a number of small establishments. The research also...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Constructing Sexuality/The Problem with Duality

"Essentialism" has been defined as the "belief that sexuality is purely a natural phenomenon, outside of culture and society, made...

Logic in Two Works

This author illustrates, logically, how so much land would not be worked, how civilizations would crumble were it not for the real...

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLC) In Computer Systems

However even with this there is no any exactness as this does not mean that it is plus or minus 2 or 3 degrees (Rosenstein, 2004)....

Xunzi and Western Logic

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the works of Xunzi. Logical arguments presented in his writings are analyzed. Paper...

Charles Adams on Lincoln’s Logic

masterpieces" (2000). Furthermore, Lincoln understood that the greatest tool an orator has to persuade people to his viewpoint is ...

Logic in the Sherlock Holmes' Tale 'Adventure Of The Speckled Band' by Arthur Conan Doyle

In this paper containing three pages the employment of the scientific method by the famed sleuth is considered with each investiga...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

A Plato Philosophy and Applied Logic Argument Example

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

Perception, Logic, Awareness, and Realism

perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensional. Rather, they grow and expand in relation to our own ...

The Nature and Logic of Capitalism by Heilbroner

Keynes, contending that such theories are simply erroneous. His vision of capitalism is different from the capitalism that class...

Assessing Logic in an Appendix

a quite reasonable approach to making the bidding process effective. The entire bid process already is time-consuming, delaying t...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...