A Challenge For Gupta 's Argument

some more properties emerge. One of these can be identified as the simplicity of truth

The theory of offensive realism is like a return to the classical realism, as its key positions consist with the provisions of Morgenthau. This applies to beliefs about the immutability

Lewis. This paper will analyze the argument of the passage above by parsing it, examining formal and informal proof, while also discussing its fallacies.

The topic of knowledge and belief has been a subject of investigation and a primary field in philosophical research for centuries. Whether it was Aristotle or Descartes, multiple ideas on knowledge and belief arise, such as the epistemological theories of foundationalism or coherentism, which provide philosophical explanations to this debate. For the sake of this essay, and in my own opinion, knowledge should be distinguished from belief. Everyone is subject to different types of beliefs based on upbringing, however knowledge of basic items is universal, therefore it immediately becomes apparent that there is a clear distinction between the two concepts.

what is true. It was about the pertinence of the primary notion that dictates all life and influences

The book “What Does it All Mean?” by Thomas Nagel is about a diverse thoughts that philosophers encounter to give responses. In every chapter, Nagel talks about different consequences to a variety of problems. The chapters expose well-known theories that philosophers tested for flaws, in order to give answers. Instead of giving us definitive answers to a situation, he allows us to analyze and derive our own theories after considering the problem at hand as well as past outcomes.

The Toulmin argument is more of an aggressive approach of proving a statement wrong and the Rogerian argument is a passive approach that will state the facts and allow the both sides to be heard. I usually agree with the Rogerian approach, but in this case I would have to use the Toulmin method to argue against this statement. This idea and argument needs to be refuted and proved wrong. This argument is continually hurting young people and causing them to believe that this is an achievable standard that must be attained. I would argue the point that it is unhealthy, unnatural, and physically unachievable. I would use the Toulmin approach to refute any claim that was made with evidence and insure that my argument proved the statement incorrect.

But what, exactly, is an inconsistency or contradiction” (350). Plantinga points out Mackie argument against theism is flawed because his logic against theism is inconsistent because Mackie would state one thing and then continue to reinforce that statement over and over. A point that Plantinga points out against Mackie is how Mackie states, “(1) good omnipotent (2) God is wholly good and (3) Evil exist” (351). Plantinga counters Mackie argument by stating, “Call this set A; The claim is that A is an inconsistent set. But what is it for a set to be inconsistent or contradiction, we might say that set of propositions is explicitly contradictory if one of the members is the denial or negation of another member” (351).

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“The minute we have taken the backward step to an intangible view of our whole system of beliefs, proof, and rationalization, and seen that it works only, in spite of its pretensions, by taking the world mainly for granted, we are not in a place to contrast all these forms with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our normal responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind (Nagel, 1971; p. 723).”

Uses irony to show how the couple watching the lifeguard and his girlfriend is arguing. However, the couple starts arguing over things that they actually wanted to argue about but just use the argument of the couple as an excuse. It was hilarious to me the first time I read it. The red flag capture my attention when I remember it falling. The red flag represents serious high risk for swimmer to be in the waters because there are high currents. In relation to the couple the red flag represents when the argument is at a high level of anger and represents that the lifeguard is heading into dangerous waters arguing with his girlfriend. When the red flag falls in presents that there is no longer a dangerous risk between the lifeguard

Smith, and Paul Knitter are in direct opposition to each other. Nash affirms that if two truths, which are diametrically opposed to one another, cannot still both be true. This would violate one of the primary laws of logic being the law of non-contradiction. Hick argues that truth can be relative and subjective to the person believing in the truth. In a sense, two truths that are opposite to each other can still be true despite their undeniable contradiction to each other. Conversely, Nash states “truth is a property of some propositions.” Therefore, pluralists have attempted to redefine truth with something other than propositions. However, Nash rebuttals this ideal held by pluralist revealing the usages of truth has to have a basis in property. Truth is not merely a difference in opinion as Smith attempts to define it. Pluralist according to Nash will state that when someone from a certain religion is affirming or denying religious truths they are only stating their opinion or preference for that religion. However, this is not an accurate statement and in order for it to be true, Smith is required to change propositions of all people groups and from a vase array of world religions. Nash relates these arguments like Smith’s idea of pluralist finds their basis in existentialism. Nash affirms that if Smith’s theory is correct, then every follower of each of the worlds’ major religions are wrong and

Question 5: Is this a good understanding of truth? Should we accept as true only what we know with certainty based on clear and indubitable evidence?

In his book ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’, Descartes writes that all beliefs, even the most irresistible convictions, may not correspond to how the world really is; and this is something that defenders of the correspondence theory are arguably unable to dismiss. As a result, the coherence theory takes a different approach and argues that a proposition (truth-bearer) is true if it ‘fits’ or coheres with a specific set of beliefs (truth-maker). These beliefs may belong either to the individual (and include the laws of logic, for example), to human beings at the ultimate stage of historical development, or to a system of beliefs held by a God or the Absolute (Walker, 1989). So in the example where Billy believes that ‘dogs have five legs’, his claim can be assessed by considering if this statement coheres with a specific set of true beliefs. For instance, it may be commonly understood that dogs have four legs not five, that there has never been a dog with more than four legs, and that no one apart from Billy has ever claimed that dogs can have more than four legs. Thus, it follows that the key to determining whether Billy’s statement is true or false is “internal consistency and logical standards” (Dunwoody, 2009, p. 117).

This week’s paper we were to research and identify three prevailing philosophical perspectives at work during the 20th Century. To begin I will research the history of a few new tendencies in contemporary philosophy. Then I will discuss the Tom Rockmore interpretation of such tendencies. Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor, Dr. Rockmore's current research interests encompass all of modern philosophy, with special emphasis on selected problems as well as figures in German idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx) and recent continental philosophy (Heidegger, Habermas, Lukacs). He is continuing to explore the epistemology of German idealism as well as the relation between philosophy and