Essays Tagged: "logical argument"

Divine foreknowledge. Concerns Nelson Pike and Boethius

n of Boethius' Divine Foreknowledge and Freedom of the Will. Pike thought thatBoethius had a valid, logical argument that was just not thought out fully. Boethius stated thatperhaps there is a lack of ... hing can happen now that would makeGod not have existed three days ago.One cannot do something that logically contradicts itself. For example, one is not able toinhale yet exhale at the same time. It ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Do we have a good reason to believe in existence of a "higher power"?Speaks of Transcendentalism

uments in favor of God, or aso-called 'higher power' are based on faith and emotion, and nota clear logical argument. In fact, these arguments are often infavor of throwing logic out the window. In ma ... nceof a transcendental power are our senses, the scientific method,and logic. With all of our technological advances, we have neverbeen able to find substantial evidence that this power exists orever ...

(4 pages) 105 0 5.0 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Problem of Evil: Is the Existence of Evil Evidence Against the Existence of God?

very heart of the atheistic argument from evil. There are two methods of approaching the argument: logical and evidential. I will argue that both of these forms of argument are irrelevant to the exis ... ll argue that both of these forms of argument are irrelevant to the existence of a theistic God.The logical argument claims that the existence of evil is logically incompatible with the existence of a ...

(9 pages) 217 1 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

"The Trial and Death of Socrates" by Plato

nce.For Plato and Socrates, detractors of trial and analysis so often times held in the human fist, logical argument is the chief method to solve the numerous differences in thought and belief that oc ... tify something's inclusion in his own list of morality and that was the quality of being able to be logically concluded as a absolute truth. To take this theme of morality to a much higher level, the ...

(5 pages) 89 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The New Constitution

The Federalist authors and delegates used logical argument to attack prejudice. They emphasized on the weaknesses of the Articles of Confedera ...

(2 pages) 25 0 3.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Origins Of Logic

neralized that "all x are y; all y are z; therefore, all x are z". Aristotle also believed that any logical argument could be reduced to a standard form, known as a syllogism (a sequence of three prop ... ndleth it as it is planted in popular opinions and manors." An idea could no longer be called logical simply because it aroused people's emotions or played upon public opinion; It had to be supp ...

(3 pages) 35 0 3.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The Cartesian Errors

ings are such that"¦I must conclude that God necessarily exists." (p.76). If this is a logical argument for the existence of something I could just as easily say, " I understand by the na ... -existing and prove it's existence by telling about it's attributes or even it's appearance because logically none of these exist either. Descartes later states, ""¦ I judge God to be actually ...

(18 pages) 11 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Need For Capital Punishment

itution, my responsibility is to select articles that I feel are fair and balanced. The concise yet logical way in which your essay is organized will be very appealing to the target audience, which is ... e issue of capital punishment is apparent in your essay. You connect very well to the emotional and logical senses of readers. The strong use of organization, logos, and pathos in your essay outweighs ...

(4 pages) 39 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Fat and Happy Hillel Schwartz Critique

z sways his readers’ opinions over the causes of obesity and the efficiency of its cures using logical fallacies and personal attitudes.Schwartz claims that members of the society who are in good ... are all accurate points that Schwartz makes but most would consider this apparent logic.One of the logical fallacies Schwartz uses is hasty generalization. Schwartz claims that overweight people are ...

(3 pages) 4793 0 3.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Patrick Henry's Use of Logos, Ethos and Pathos in His speech to the VA convention

stotle said that to be persuasive in ones arguments that one must establish credibility (ethos) use logical argument (logos), and appeal to the audience on an emotional level (pathos). Twenty two hund ... f the siren till it transforms us into beasts. This also creates an appeal to ethos by using a mythological allusion to homers Oddesy. These are a few of the examples of appeals to ethos that Henry us ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Civil Disobedience Analysis

aws and should abide by the rules of his conscience. Through the use of rhetorical strategies and a logical argument, Thoreau appeals to the individual, urging him to rise against unfair laws and stan ... rnment and those who support it.Thoreau expresses his disdain toward unfair government by providing logical reasons to discredit it. He begins by asserting that "government is best which governs least ...

(5 pages) 24 0 5.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers