As Xi Zhi says, "Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding at all." So with skepticism, I began my research in hopes of coming to a well-supported conclusion debunking the crazy claims of my research topic. It is said that Puma punku is so unique in the way it was constructed and shaped and positioned that it is the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. Individuals such as Giorgio
A. Tsoukalos and Philip Coppens are featured on the segment Ancient Aliens - Season 4 Episode
6 - The Mystery Of Puma Punku makes claims that the stone masonry is so intricate, precise and sophisticated that there must have been help from extraterrestrial beings that
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Then there is Philip Coppens, whom started his career in 1971 as an investigative journalist and then at the age of 23, serving as an editor of manuscripts on European megaliths. Belgian historia Marcel Mestdagh. While working with Mestdagh,
Coppens grew found of alternative interpretations of history while building appreciation for it.
Throughout this period, he endorsed eccentric views on wild claims. Just in the last few years,
Coppens came to the conclusion that ancient aliens were visitors from another dimension spiritually, as gods. Coppens concluded that multiple lost civilizations had high technology.
Although, he could not point to any physical evidence to support either proposition, he relied solely on interpretations of ancient texts and myths, second-handedly. The History Channel is the medium in which these two individuals use to assert their wild claims. The History Channel itself, tends to sacrifice academic diligence for entertainment. Understandable it is television, but it seems as if only one strain of thought gets airtime. It is evident that voices of reasons are ignored and the claimants of these wild claims are given more attention. These claimants often make incorrect statements about facts within established history only in hope of proving their claims about history.
It was pointed out that the
While “generally newly discovered evidence going only to credibility” is not a basis for setting aside a judgment, it may become so when a
UFO-Alien Abduction Still Haunts Travis Walton was written through the Huff Post: Weird News, with no author. It was posted April 23, 2015. It describes Travis Walton’s experience from 40 years ago. He describes how he was abducted by non human beings. He was reported missing for 5 days, when he returned he did not know how long he had been gone for. He describes his experience from the second he saw the space craft to being inside of the same space craft surrounded by 3 non human beings. I believe that kairos in this article is bad. The experience being described is from 1975, so it is not new. The article would be better if the experience that was being described was recent. There is nothing new and useful about this article. The point of the article is to describe someone’s experience of a UFO abduction, it does not establish kairos.
theories, appearing mostly in The Future of an Illusion, are a bit more credible. He made a
What of his supporting evidence appears to be based in fact and what is fancy?
We aren’t going to agree with everyone all the time, but we need to make sure everyone’s voice is being heard. After that person is heard, than you can be heard.
And just as Gutzon set out to build a great feat, so will this paper and its interpretation and story-telling of the past. The history behind this monument, the artistry that is and was displayed, and the basic skills of location, environment, and factors that influence geography will also be discussed here. This work by Gutzon was not just mere sensationalism or commercialism, as has normally been the angle of reporters, but instead this will take on the historic aspect as it was originally intended to bring out.
By carrying out the method of doubt, we are able to free ourselves from all prejudices with the intention of being able to withdraw our mind from our senses. In doing so, we set a base for being able to decipher the truth from the falsity (Meditations, 39). The reasoning to doubt not only comes from the desire to learn the truth, but to “establish anything firm and lasting
Skepticism is something that we all have to one degree or another. Some of us who carry some Limited (Local) Skepticism might question whether we can really know if the news anchor is giving us correct information or if the five day forecast is really on track this time regarding the rain it is predicting. Others subscribe to the Global Skepticism view; that is, they would argue that we cannot know anything at all, and, therefore, we can’t have knowledge of anything (Feldman 109). As a global skeptic, we would not only challenge the same things that limited skeptics confront, but we would challenge the very essence of our being. If this form of skepticism is valid, we would have to reexamine
René Descartes was an extremely influential 17th-century philosopher and came up with many ideas that still persist to this day. One of those ideas was Cartesian skepticism, which states that “the view that we do not or cannot have knowledge in regard to a particular domain,” knowledge, in this case, is justified, true, beliefs. He first comes up with his idea of skepticism in the first part of his work “Meditations On First Philosophy,” aptly named “Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful.” In his first meditation, he discusses his doubts with sensory illusion/error, possible dream states, and regarding deception by an evil demon. However, after dissolving his first two doubts, he gets stuck on the third and
Skepticism is define as an intellectual process of applying reason and critical thinking to validate a certain point. Skepticism was the very base for Descartes arguments in the first two meditations. He started by
to have people accept his hypothesis, as a fact is one of the major problems
This specific Earthwork consists of a contrast of brown and green colors; but clearly staging the color blue as the point of interest. Carlos Portela’s usage of different green leaves, dried leaves, and grass allows you to see the balance between the bricks made of clay and nature itself. Even though bricks are man-made in this case they are composed with materials found on earth. Portela’s Earthwork is one of the first pieces to used perfectly shaped bricks, including a uniform pattern. In this unique Earthwork we observed that the horizon line rest on the tip of the pyramid allowing the green leafs and the only two blue flowers merged with the uncut grass of Portela’s patio.
either; and so it is not really and assertion." What does he mean by this? He
Skepticism is the Western philosophical tradition that maintains that human beings can never arrive at any kind of certain knowledge. Originating in Greece in the middle of the fourth century BC, skepticism and its derivatives are based on the following principles:
In “The Refutation of Skepticism”, Jonathan Vogel establishes an “Inference to the Best Explanation” (hereafter, “IBE”) as a means to refute skepticism about the external world. In this refutation, Vogel acknowledges that skepticism about IBE still remains a possibility, but that this kind of skepticism would be rather outlandish in character and thus could be ignored. This paper shall both establish and evaluate Vogel’s reasoning as to why he confidently dismisses any skepticism pertaining to his IBE, and furthermore will illuminate some points as to why Vogel may have mischaracterized potential threats to his method, leaving his refutation of skepticism vulnerable to doubt that is not as