The Reid Technique is an accusatory style of interrogation police officers in the United States are taught to use in investigations. This technique is designed to produce confessions as opposed to gathering evidence in regards to specific crimes. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the nine step technique because of the manipulative nature it uses. Those who oppose the Reid Technique have valid reasons to be critical‚ while those who support it fail to see the fallacies it is based upon. The
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This paper will be a discussion of moral judgments and the disagreements surrounds their validity in the absolute and moral sense.Most philosophers believe in either Normative Moral Relativism or Moral Objectivism. In class‚ Normative Moral Relativism is defined as the view that the truth or falsity of moral judgments is relative to the traditions etc. of a society or culture. Moral Objectivism‚ however‚ is defined in class as the view that morality is objective only if three rules are met‚ the first
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In Defense of Foucault’s Enlightenment Martin Alec N. Bautista 11035218 SUMMARY The Philosophical Area of Postmodernism has always been classified as a critique of the continuity established by modernism and the different claims it has towards truth and reality. Postmodernism puts into play different factors that contribute to the formation of the things that modernists consider to be clear and indubitable such as language‚ media‚ power‚ and social institutions that shape the way we conceive
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According to Kant‚ the fundamental principle of morality must be a categorical‚ rather than a hypothetical imperative‚ because an imperative based on reason alone is one that is a necessary truth‚ is a priori‚ and is one that applies to us because we are rational beings capable of fulfilling our moral obligations. Kant explains this essential truth is how "an action as objectively necessary in itself apart from its relation to a further end". This refers to how if the supreme principle of morality
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four years ago‚ when I stood on this stage‚ I said that I would cut taxes for middle-class families. And that’s exactly what I did. We cut taxes for middle class families about $3‚600.” This statement is a deductive argument categorized as Modus Ponens. It follows a simple equation of [if p then q][p][therefor q] If we look at Obama’s quoted we can see the for of this argument plainly using some basic knowledge that he was previously elected president. When I stood on this stage‚ I said
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Philosophy is the systematic explanation. Science is description‚ generalization‚ or law and demands a single explanation‚ which is philosophy. The explanation which philosophy offers is what must be the case in order for something to be as it is. Thales was an astronomer who was the first to predict an eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C. Thales said that the universe is one thing which was water‚ or matter. Thales lived in Miletus‚ then part of Greece and now present day Turkey. Herakleitos said
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line three he asserts the limitations that appear if God can create a stone that he cannot lift‚ thereby‚ also‚ not performing an action‚ and so it would seem‚ that God’s omnipotence can be called into question. This argument is valid and is in modus tollens form. It is valid because the assertion in line 4 logically follows from lines 1 through 3. However‚ the argument is not sound. Mavrodes attempts to show that God’s omnipotence is paradoxical‚ for it appears that there is something that God
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(Hobbes 107) where there would be “no knowledge” (Hobbes 107)‚ no society‚ and no culture. In sum‚ Hobbes’ argues that life in a state of nature would be “ solitary‚ poor‚ nasty‚ brutish‚ and short” (Hobbes 107). Hobbes’ argument is structured in a Modus Ponens form‚ with his main premise being that humans’ inborn qualities drive them towards competitiveness‚ fearfulness‚ suspiciousness‚ arrogance‚ increasing their power‚ and attempting to glorify themselves (Hobbes 106). Another premise is that men are
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Metaphysics The “Basic” Argument for Theological Fatalism Fatalism Fatalism is the view that everything that happens in entirely unavoidable. Since everything that happens is unavoidable‚ none of our actions are genuinely up to us and we powerless to do anything other than what we actually do. Here is Richard Taylor on what the fatalist believes [“Fate” from Metaphysics‚ 4th Ed (Pearson‚ 1991)]: “A fatalist is someone who believes that whatever happens is and always was unavoidable.
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