Essays Tagged: "Inference"
Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health.
active mind altering substance, also known as cannabis.3. Detrimental= Serious harm. Primary Inference: Smoking or eating marijuana is likely to create serious health problems for most i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
The Socratic Doctrine of the Soul. Deals also with philosophers through ages from Pythagorous up to Plato
e separate from the body. The belief in an active principle in some sense distinct from the body is inference from the observed facts of life. The lowest savages arrive at the concept of the soul almo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
On Events: Individuation, Exemplification, and Instantiation. This paper examines several philosophical concepts related to events and event substantiation.
into an existential present-tense framework. Problems arise when attempting to draw any substantial inference from the aforementioned generality about events. Are we to accept identity properties for ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Compare and contrast the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version and the more recent Baz Luhrmann version.
in both movies.In Franco Zeffirelli's account of "Romeo and Juliet", a good amount of the story is inference, left up to the viewer to figure out by watching closely. In Baz Luhrmann's, everything is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Meet the Oldest Member of the Human Family
not known whether Toumai was bipedal or not. Brunet et al. say that it would be a not unreasonable inference that it was a habitual biped because it shares characteristics with other hominids known t ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Critical Thinking Article Summary and Critique
AbstractIn the article I choose (Critical Thinking: Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions) the authors focus on two elements of reasoning, inference and assumption ... e authors define an assumption as "something that we take for granted or presuppose" and defined an inference as "a step in the mind, by which one concludes something to be true in the light of someth ... owed well from one to the next. Good examples were given to further explain the differences between inference and assumptions.AssumptionThe authors assumed that the audience had a general understandin ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Biily Budd by Herman Melville- Appearance vs Reality
ne would judge others at first sight by their appearance and first impressions then make an initial inference about them. Through the interaction and conversation one had with people, they might not b ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants
l tip of the iceberg, leaving everything else not exactly for guess work, but more for analysis and inference, as the story is ironically so rich in detail from symbols and foreshadowing. In this pape ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Presumptions Against Repeal by Implications
INTRODUCTIONPresumption as defined in black's law dictionary as a legal inference or assumption that a fact exists, based on the known or proven existence of some other fac ... presumption.William P. Richardson in his book on 'The Law of Evidence' defines presumption to be an inference as to the existence of one fact from the existence of some other fact founded upon a previ ... n a conceivable case, the very existence of two provisions may by itself, and without more, lead to inference of mutual irreconcilabity if the later set of provisions may not be necessary."Affirmative ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes once proclaimed, "we do not read novels for improvement or instruction." CRITICAL LENS. The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel as well as Keeping Faith by Frank and John Schaeffer
for improvement or instruction," however there are many individuals who would disagree with Holmes' inference. There is a great deal of literature that offers much more than amusement for its audience ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
MATHEMATICS -ARA
or symbolic logic, the science of using symbols to provide an exact theory of logical deduction and inference based on definitions, axioms, postulates, and rules for combining and transforming primiti ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
On Going Indoors
icture, if you will, a world in which no one went outside. When I refer to outside or outdoors, the inference is not the mere act of stepping out the door, but moving, doing, and existing outside. A m ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Short tutorial report on Bias in History with reference to the Korean Nationalist Paradigm.
is Cultural Bias in History?(As opposed to personal bias)Cultural bias occurs where, 'a historical inference, description, or explanation is later found to be untrue or unfair, relative to the eviden ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Thomas Hobbes.
How might we define the modern state?The inference that we might be able to define what constitutes a modern state presupposes that it alread ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Selecting and Testing Hypotheses Simulation
ecisions on the behavior of the sample. Any discrepancy in the sample data would lead to inaccurate inference. Which made the selection of appropriate user groups and sample size crucial for the succe ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Emily Dickinson's Persona
ample, in poem 249, Dickinson describes "Wilds Nights" where wild night should be "our luxury". The inference of wild nights is in my opinion to that of wild night of sex, partying, or both. The secon ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Jain Epistemology
ony, extra-sensory perception, telepathy, and kevala, the state of omniscience of a perfected soul. Inference, which most other Indian epistemologies include, is interestingly absent from this list. H ... , is interestingly absent from this list. However, discussion of the pramanas seem to indicate that inference is implied in the pramana that provides the premises for inference. That is, inference fro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Quest for the Truth
of who we are is based upon what we consider to be the truth; truth that is supported by reason and inference. Many consider life more worthwhile by living based upon what is considered to be the trut ... sed upon lies and groundless illusions.Other approach that individuals use to discover the truth is inference. Individuals combine statements that support the statement in question. If the supporting ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Decision Making Models
ls are to aid decision makers to minimize the threat of human mistakes, and taking into account the inference of courses of actions from observable behaviors. These decision making practice is the abi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Preliminary Physics Research Task - Electrical Energy in the Home
continuous electric current. Volta at first approved, and then disagreed completely with Galvani's inference about animal electricity. This stated that there is electricity that is transmitted from a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics