TOK Reflection: Mathematics To what extent is math relevant to your life and the lives of others you know and how can it become an even more viable area of knowledge. “In mathematics I can report no deficience‚ except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the Pure Mathematics.” Roger Bacon (1214-1294) Mathematics: the abstract science of number‚ quantity‚ and space; a subject considered by many to be useless‚ a waste of time‚ and too difficult. “When am
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True-False Questions 1. T F Study of the methods of persuasion began with communication researchers early in the twentieth century. 2. T F What many teachers refer to as source credibility was called ethos by Aristotle. 3. T F Competence and character are the most important factors affecting a speaker’s credibility. 4. T F Education and status are the most important factors affecting a speaker’s credibility. 5. T F The more favorably listeners view a speaker’s competence and character
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Critical Thinking and Ethical Reasoning Jennifer Browning ETH 316 April 2‚ 2015 Professor Peter Fortuna Critical thinking and ethical reasoning are not far on the scale of relevance to one another. In ethical reasoning we look at two scenarios: are we harming ourselves or someone else OR are we bettering ourselves or someone else? Humans tend to do what is best for themselves whether not they could be hurting someone else. They do not typically look at the big picture or the consequence
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Mill ’s Inductive reasoning Method of Agreement Mill ’s method of agreement identifies a cause of an event in terms of its sufficient condition. When using this method‚ one searches for a single factor that is common to multiple situations in which the same event occurred. Mill says that‚ when two or more occurrences of the event under investigation have only one condition in common‚ then that condition is the cause of the event. (Mill‚ 2002) More simply stated‚ Mill ’s method of agreement
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Ximena Gallego ANTH 350- Historical Archaeology Professor J. Moore- SP ‘13 Saitta Paper The Archeology of Collective Action When Dean Saitta wrote The Archeology of Collective Action: The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective‚ he aimed to address major issues that dealt with the study of archaeology. He focuses on how much archaeology has advanced and has clarified the concerns involving race‚ gender and class‚ which are all manifested into collective action. It is these actions
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in the universe if we cannot know where to begin to look? And if we know where to look for the answer then why are we looking? Socrates‚ however‚ challenges Meno’s idea by saying that we may not know all things but we know some and by using deductive reasoning we are able to find such answers. This creates the idea that all knowledge is premeditated‚ “…a process men call learning- discovering…are as a whole recollection” (Socrates). Socrates refers to virtue as the soul‚ he states that by listening
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an argument. While we must have a common language to communicate about different types of pseudoreasoning‚ the point of these lessons is to alert you to a number of ways in which reasoning fails. When you have finished this course‚ you may quickly forget the many names and labels but remain alert to failures in reasoning. Common Forms of Pseudoreasoning/Fallacies 1. Smokescreen/Red Herring 2. The Subjectivist Fallacy 3. Appeal to Belief 4. Common Practice 5. Peer Pressure and Bandwagon
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Can literature “tell the truth” better than other arts or other areas of knowledge? John Stuart Mill once proclaimed that there are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. This means that one cannot perceive the truth without understanding it. For example one cannot know the truth of Pythagoras’s theorem being that a right angled triangle’s hypotenuse’s square value is equal to the squares of both its other sides. This is because
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Investigating the ‘Belief Bias’ Effect in Human Reasoning Abstract In this report an experiment was conducted to investigate the belief bias effect in human reason‚ the weighting attached to logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning. Belief biases were observed despite controls for conversion of premises. Belief bias was shown to be more marked in the invalid than the valid syllogisms. This consistent interaction between belief and logic was also noted. However‚ participants were intermediate
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