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    Categorizing love? The threshold to the infinite definition of love is many. Although many cynics like me‚ may have thought it impossible‚ sociologists over the past several decades have been attempting to categorize and quantify the notion of love. Sternberg in 1986 sees love in terms of the interaction among three independent aspects: passion‚ intimacy (two components of love that many of us need no help in identifying or do I dare say practicing?) and the “C” word that sends many of us rushing

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    and evidence. For example‚ in the story a skeptic could say‚ “how do you know that what we experience is real?” and a foundationalist will keep giving reasons such as the fact that we are talking right now‚ and so on. In relation to the story‚ one might say‚ “how do you know that Mike’s brain isn’t in a vat?” and the foundationalist replies by using facts‚ like no one saw them dissecting his brain‚ or that he is here right now. I believe that the skeptic questions of “how do you know…?” are not backed

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    Principal Issues with Epistemology Earnell Branson PHL/215 June 18‚ 2012 Dr. Anne M. Edwards Principal Issues with Epistemology Society has attempted to decipher what is real. The idea of what is real and what is understood has been a problem for societies. The different societies and cultures believed in other beings such as different God’s. Greek society was a leader in worshipping and believing in God’s that perceived to be real in their minds and culture. Worshipping these God’s begun

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    made him sick. So he went off to travel a few years in England and France. It was at a Jesuit College in France that he wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (in two parts)‚ which he published anonymously in London in 1739. Hume was the ultimate skeptic‚ convincingly reducing matter‚ mind‚ religion‚ and science to a matter of sense impressions and memories. First‚ he agreed with Bishop Berkeley that matter‚ or the existence of a world beyond our perceptions‚ is an unsupportable concept. Further

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    Antony Flew (1955) introduces the concept of theology and falsification by referring to John Wisdom’s parable of the Believer and the Skeptic in reference to the existence of a beautiful garden in the jungle. The Believer asserts that there must be a gardener taking care of it regardless of whether he can be seen‚ heard or felt‚ while the Skeptic believes there is no gardener and the garden blooms independently of a caretaker. Even after setting a watch‚ patrolling with dogs and setting up an electrified

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    Skepticism A skeptic is a person who is inclined to question and doubt; they deny that we have knowledge about a specific subject matter. There are different types of skeptics‚ one being the skeptic of the external world. A skeptic about the external world believes that we have no knowledge about the external world‚ and only know the internal world which is that of our minds‚ and consists of one’s thoughts and feelings. The external world is considered anything that exists independently outside

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    certain innate concepts and ideas that are possessed and understood by everyone).” Therefore‚ the inherent uncertainty of sensory experience (i.e. optical illusions and hallucinations) cannot provide a solid foundation for knowledge. Normally‚ a skeptic starts from several of explanations for a single situation but they will always end in wrong conclusions. Skepticism can take you to fertile results if you contemplate the following and consider the Sorites Paradox. First of all‚ admit these three

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    antonyms describing his psyche. Holden is the protagonist in J.D Salinger’s only acclaimed novel The Catcher in the Rye. The story centers around the adolescence of this rebel with and without a cause’s life. It is narrated from the point of view of a cynic‚ with most secondary characters being valueless‚ trite yuppies with little integrity or worth. Holden’s internal voyage is triggered by his expulsion from Pencey‚ a boarding school in upstate New York. Holden Caulfield is a tall‚ solidly built teenager

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    the interviews. Despite being a skeptic before. Lee goes from contradiction everything from the Bible to being a follow of Christ because of all the evidence from the professors. I chose this book for many different reasons. Before reading this book I never knew of

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