A solid argument consists of a claim‚ reasons/evidence and conclusion. “Reasons are beliefs‚ evidence‚ metaphors‚ analogies‚ and other statements offered to support or justify conclusions. When a writer has a conclusion she wants you to accept‚ she must present reasons to persuade you that she is right and show you why. You cannot determine the worth of a conclusion until you identify the reasons” (Browne & Keeley‚ 2012‚ p.28). Absent reasons or conclusion the argument is weak‚ unclear‚ pointless
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People with self-control can control their emotions. During an argument‚ they control their natural tendency to become extremely upset or sad. However‚ temperate people in an argument understand that emotions will only make their argument worse‚ so they don’t have their emotions overcome them. Next‚ people with self-control suppress their desires to eat a whole pizza in one setting. They don’t eat
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Arguments of Peter Singer PHI200: Mind and Machine Instructor: April 19‚ 2013 Singer’s goal in the article “Famine‚ Affluence and Morality” is to get people to think differently about famine relief‚ charity‚ and morality. These are key issues that people need to be more aware of and act on them. People who are financially stable and well off should take more of an active role by giving more. They should feel obligated in helping those in need. There are many people suffering severely‚
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existence of God for the first time. His argument is known as the cognitive causal principle and goes like this: 1) The cause of an idea must contain formally (or eminently) as much reality as the idea contains objectively. 2) My idea of God contains infinite reality objectively. 3) My idea of God is caused by something that contains infinite (unlimited) reality‚ eminently or formally. 4) Only God has unlimited reality. 5) Therefore‚ God exists. In this argument‚ Descartes means that the reality that
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The determinists and fatalists also have plausible arguments against free will. One argument against free will‚ although not deterministic or fatalistic‚ states that God contradicts free will of all living beings including itself. If God is omniscient‚ meaning it knows all‚ it should already know all of its future actions
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What is a slippery slope argument? Critically discuss the use of such arguments in one area of biomedical ethical controversy. The slippery slope argument is amongst the strongest voiced and possibly the most emotive of arguments in opposition to legalising voluntary active euthanasia (VAE‚ the act of accelerating the death of another‚ usually by lethal injection‚ for their own good and with their consent). In fact‚ in discussion on practically any change in social policy it is common place
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Among Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) most influential contributions to philosophy is his development of the transcendental argument. In Kant’s conception‚ an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought‚ experience‚ or knowledge‚ and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of this premise. The crucial steps in this reasoning are claims to the effect that a subconclusion or conclusion is a presupposition and necessary
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Meditations‚ he makes the strong claim that God must exist. I will first explain what Descartes’s argument for God’s existence is‚ and then I will attempt to support the argument that God does not need to necessarily exist through objections and replies. Premise 1: “We have an idea of God as an infinite and perfect being.” First‚ Descartes believes that there are properties that are inherently perfect. For example‚ being good is a perfection while being bad is an imperfection. A perfect being has all
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An argument for human experimentation is that doing so can provide researchers with information that is needed to help find effective and ineffective treatment options. Without clinical trials and human experimentation we wouldn’t have the needed knowledge when it comes to releasing new medications‚ for example. Instead of experimenting with a controlled group of informed‚ consenting adults‚ we would instead be basically experimenting on people who take the untested drug. Surely there are cases where
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In This article‚ I can imagine the perspective from both sides and where they are coming from in their argument. The argument is severe and debatable because if they let the school stay up and running‚ it will provide a place for people who take religion seriously and people who feel uncountable around LGBTQ people to learn without having LGBTQ kids and or staff around. On the other hand‚ if the government lets it keep running it can fail to teach nonLGBTQ children that LGBTQ children are weird and
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