an emotional one. One of the main strengths of the cosmological argument was brought forward again recently by William Lane Craig. The argument tries to say that the world couldn’t have just occurred‚ there must be some sufficient reason. Gottfried Leibniz is the most asscoitated with this idea of ‘The principle of sufficient reason’ ‚he says that anthing that happens ‚including the universe‚ must have become due to a definite reason. Therefore there must be a course or an explanation. However
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own destiny. Voltaire uses the repetition of the phrase; “all is for the best” embedded without the novella to parallel the common philosophies of one of the main characters‚ Pangloss‚ and a prevalent philosopher in Voltaire’s time ‚ G.W Leibniz. Leibniz believed that “God created everything in the world for the good of man‚ if evil is in the world‚ then God created it for the good of mankind‚ so all is for the best” and it is this notion of blindly surrendering that Voltaire protests‚ the overly
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1) Compare and contrast the views of Dualism‚ Materialism‚ and Idealism. Dualism is a view that what exists is either physical or mental‚ and spirtual for some things like humans. It views the mind as nonphysical substance and a human as physical and a mental component which is the mind. Materialism is a view that focus on the physical.This view believes that only the physical exist. This theory believes if the object is not in motion it is not real. Idealsism is a view that believes in only
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science. All truth found in nature‚ rejection of supernatural religion. Emphasis is placed on principles of deduction (1687) Deism: The clockmaker God; God made the world‚ then he let it alone‚ no divine intervention **Optimism: 1) Founder= Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz: German mathematician and scientist. World is organized to a pre-established harmony. There is a reason for everything that happens. Followed two main assumptions: 1. God is perfect‚ therefore 2. Of all the worlds God could have
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Voltaire Chapter 1: Candide lives in the castle of the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia. Candide is the illegitimate son of the baron’s sister. His mother refused to marry his father because his father’s family tree could only be traced through “seventy-one quarterings.” The castle’s tutor‚ Pangloss‚ teaches “metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology” and believes that this world is the “best of all possible worlds.” Candide listens to Pangloss with great attention and faith. Miss
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ubiquitous vicissitudes‚ more commonly put as coincidences. The story is full of them‚ with many of the plot points relying on the improbable coincidences to move the story forward. The book revolves around one central theory‚ originally composed by Leibniz‚ a German mathematician and philosopher who is so prominent in the world of both mathematics and philosophy‚ having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton‚ and the creator of the optimism theory. Leibniz’s theory
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Given : Approximation of FOPTD Model (a)Two Points Method [See Appendix-A for MATLAB Code] Figure (1): Process reaction curve using Matlab At 28.4%‚ t1 = 2.48s At 63.2%‚ t2 = 4.18s T = 1.5(t2 – t1) = 1.5(4.18-2.48)=2.55s L = 0.5(3t1-t2)=0.5(3*2.48-4.18)=1.63s Gain K=1 Approximated TF is : Gs=1e-1.63s2.55s+1 Verification of Two Point Method in Time domain and Frequency domain [See Appendix-A for MATLAB Code] Figure (2): Verification of Two Point Method in Time
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Daniel Bernoulli (Groningen‚ 8 February 1700 – Basel‚ 8 March 1782) was aDutch-Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in theBernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics‚ especially fluid mechanics‚ and for his pioneering work in probability andstatistics. Bernoulli’s work is still studied at length by many schools of science throughout the world. In Physics :- He is the earliest writer who attempted to formulate a kinetic
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π (sometimes written pi) is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.141593 in the usual decimal notation (see the table for its representation in some other bases). The constant is also known as Archimedes Constant‚ although this name is rather uncommon in modern‚ western‚ English-speaking contexts. Many formulae
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Student Name: James Hunter Student ID: l25403055 Class Name: PHIL 201 Date: November 25‚ 2013 In Module/Week 5’s Reading & Study folder there are 3 short readings. Your assignment is to read them and then write an essay with a minimum of 600 words (in MLA‚ APA‚ or Turabian format) addressing some of the following questions. You must address the first question‚ but then you are free to consider any of the others. While you are free to quote from sources‚ quotations will not count towards the
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