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    a being as great as God. However‚ there are those that believe we can meaningfully make religious statements so long as they meet a certain criteria and aren’t intended as literal. Religious language being meaningless is an outlook shared by the logical positivists who have their origins in a group called the Vienna Circle in the 1920-30s. This group of philosophers believed that statements are only meaningful if they are able to be verified by an actually experience or is a tautology; a statements

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    accepting illegal gifts. He used his television appearance to deny the allegations and outline his personal financial circumstances. Nixon made the American citizens believe in his honesty by using plain folks‚ testimonial‚ weasel words‚ as well as logical fallacies‚ such as an ad hominem argument‚ false analogy‚ and begging the question to deliver his speech. According to the Institute for Propaganda Analysis‚ “Plain folks” is a device used by politicians such as Nixon to win our confidence by appearing

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    Sasha Lopez Mr. Davis IB Math Studies‚ P.4 November 1‚ 2011 Fallacies In Marketing and Advertisements A fallacy is an error in logical thinking. Fallacies are defects in an argument that cause an argument to be invalid‚ unsound‚ or weak. Having a background in fallacies benefits you in clarifying your own thinking and in defending yourself in manipulation. There are many ways to categorize fallacies. Aristotle‚ an ancient Greek philosopher‚ was the first to try to systematically describe and

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    Hasty Generalization‚ and Appealing to Emotion? When you initially look at these three categories they may not seem to have too much in common. However‚ when you look deeper you will see that in fact‚ they are all different types of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are errors of reasoning‚ errors that may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers (Downes‚ 1995). The following quote helps explain why logic is important to us in today ’s society. "Logic is not everything. But it is

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    can see‚ taste‚ touch and smell even real? There are arguments against the study of metaphysics. They contend that actual metaphysical knowledge cannot be gained. The two main arguments against metaphysics are Kant ’s "Copernican Revolution" and logical positivism. Both of the arguments placed against metaphysics hold to some form of the argument that metaphysical knowledge cannot truly be gained. Kant

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    “Philosophy of Language: Paved way for a better Development Communicator” One concept discussed in Philosophy 1 that I think is particularly applicable to my course – Bachelor of Science Development Communication‚ is the ‘Philosophy of Language.’ I have chosen this concept because we all know that philosophy of language is concerned on the problem: “When we say something‚ it must be meaningful. How then can we know if statements are meaningful or not?” While the Development Communication

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    Links: The Nizkor project Visit this site for additional examples of logical fallacies. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ Some Final Questions CHAPTER 4 Mission: Critical—Logical Fallacies Visit this site sponsored by San Jose State University for additional exercises on logical fallacies. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/induc/ind-ded.html

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    These issues have led to religious believers to find ways in which they can talk about God in a meaningful way and the opposite as non-believers are searching for ways to render religious language meaningless. A group of philosophers called the logical positivists who as a group did not seek to understand how we gain knowledge of the external world‚ but how we use language to convey it. They believed that everything that can be verified is meaningful. Thus the verification principle was developed

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    and r be the propositions p : You have the flu. q : You miss the final examination. r : You pass the course. Write these propositions using p and q and logical connectives. (a) p → q (b) ¬q ⇐⇒ r (c) q → ¬r (d) p ∨ q ∨ r (e) (p → ¬r) ∨ (q → ¬r) (f ) (p ∧ q) ∨ (¬q ∧ r) Solution. Because this is part of the chapter 1.1‚ we don’t have logical equivalences yet. That’s a shame—many of these solutions could be made to sound more “natural” by first altering the form of the logic a bit. (a) If you

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    factual assertions. Flew insisted that claims by the believer such as ‘God loves us’ are not to be taken as ‘anything but assertions’. Verification means to prove the truth of a statement whilst falsification means to prove a statement is false. Logical positivism was developed by the Vienna circle. They only accepted two forms of verifiable language: Analytical a priori statements which are logically true or false‚ an example would be ‘all circles are round’ and synthetic a posteriori statements

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