Essays Tagged: "premises"
Campus Secuirty and your rights paper for a cj class
different strategies were used by the police: arresting the suspect, ordering the suspect from the premises for 24 hours, and trying to restore order (Berk, 1992). Lawrence W. Sherman and Douglas A. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The Motionless Arrow, Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Paradox
ter, Aristotle interprets Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as 'missing the mark'. There are four premises for this argument, and in Aristotle's opinion, premise three can be rejected. He does not b ... roves with laws of science. However, by evaluating the falsity of premise three, you will find that premises one and two are also false. Almost all opinions can be argued, however, and by evaluating t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Do culture and individual beliefs affect logical thinking? If so, how do they influence the conclusions we reach?
is strictly followed, logical thinking cannot be affected by any outside influences as long as the premises are truly valid. For example the syllogism:All mammals are warm blooded.Whales are mammals. ... s often fallacious because of stereotypes, cultural taboos, and/or prejudices. Because of this, the premises used in reasoning are not always truly valid but are accepted as valid. This is what influe ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Does an Arrest Deter Crime?. Refers to the article in the American Sociological Review. Lawrence W. Sherman and Douglas A. Smith
different strategies were used by the police: arresting the suspect, ordering the suspect from the premises for 24 hours, and trying to restore order (Berk, 1992). Lawrence W. Sherman and Douglas A. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Handguns - vital weapons or deadly killers?
to 5million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more guns.1 There is a firearmon the premises of more than half the households in America. Most of them keep guns forprotection. The othe ... to 5million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more guns.1 There is a firearmon the premises of more than half the households in America. Most of them keep guns forprotection. The othe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Oklahoma City Bombing
other people were confirmed dead, 17 of them were infants and children in a day care center on the premises, and hundreds more are injured. Federal officials believed the bomb was set off in a car pa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Democracy in Ecuador
ee and quality. Confusion often arises in discussion about democracy. This stems from the different premises people have in mind when they use the term. In my opinion, most people fail to specify thei ... le have in mind when they use the term. In my opinion, most people fail to specify their underlying premises, and we often incorporate into our sense of democracy disparate factors that may or may not ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
This essay is a compare and contrast essay. It deals with Flannery O'conners "Good Country People" and Steinbecks "The Chrysanthemums".
k's "The Chrysanthemums", the fence symbolizes Elisa's boundary, in which she is trapped within its premises. The fence being created by man symbolizes the boundary between man and woman, where inside ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Cigarettes & Alcohol are Suckering in Children
e has already been a law passed making it illegal to advertise cigarette and alcohol near or on the premises of schools. Even though a law has been passed, there are still the same old billboards that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
A response to John Wisdoms article, "Gods"
aw of gravity can. It cannot be proven through a scientific experiment, or deduced through a set of premises. Science has dominated our acceptance of "facts" for many centuries, which has resulted in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Meditation three of Descartes
s paper I'll reconstruct Descartes argument and evaluate its validity based on the soundness of its premises. Descartes' proof for the existence of god is: 1.) I think, therefore I am. 2.) I can not b ... e idea of god. Another way to put this is to say that you can't derive the infinite from the finite.Premises number four shows that we all have an idea of perfection (i.e. god). The concept of god as ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Who was the "Boston strangler"? Discusses the unsolved case.
omen's homes so easily, "He would spend little time targeting his victims, gaining admission to the premises under the guise of being an official authorized to carry out business in the unsuspecting v ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Argument against William Rowe's article on the problem of evil to prove that an omni-x God does exist
suffering. His argument against the existence of an all powerful and loving god is set out in three premises:1.There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could ha ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Is seeing believing?
, God does not exist". The conclusion of this argument is the proposition "God does not exist". The premises are "All knowledge comes from sensory impressions" and "There are no sensory impressions of ... is convincing. However, the first premise is not persuasive. A deductive argument is sound when its premises are true and the conclusion is valid. A valid deductive argument is that, whose conclusion ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Rogerian argument as to why we as U.S. citizens need better clarification of the probable cause definition surrounding search and seizure laws.
my shotgun in the police sought and obtained a search warrant targeting any and all firearms on my premises.This is why I am going to attempt to argue why we as United States citizens need clarificat ... ould lead a person of reasonable caution to believe that something connected with a crime is on the premises of a person or on the person themselves"(Probable Cause 1)."Once again we have more vague t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Gun Control.
fatal consequences. Criminals will not be discouraged from using guns without stricter regulations.(Premises) Guns, are far more lethal than knives or baseball bats, especially in the wrong hands or i ... quent paragraphs, one for each premise, you muststate the evidence you have for believing that your premises are true: )There have been cases where people have shot a colleague, school mateor spouse f ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Over Simplification of Women.
y, they also corrupt by their desire for power, love for competition, and want for achievements.The premises of John Gray's essay were set many years ago when all men lived on Mars and all women lived ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Theory is created at the expense of Art". Does this statement present an accurate description of the central claim advanced by Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy?
certainly a clearly discernable assertion made by Nietzsche. That said there are a myriad of other premises and claims within Birth of Tragedy that cannot simply be ignored. Moreover, our difficultie ... consider and take in to account; the intent of the author in publishing this work, the discernable premises and meanings inherent in its style and construction beyond the actual words and its subsequ ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
When is war justified?
m would be assessed to determine an appropriate response. After a decision has been make from those premises, war could morally be justified and action should be taken. However, indirect aggression is ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
How does the film "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" explore rebellion?
e story of patients at a mental institution, and explores some strange incidents which occur on the premises, the maintenance of power achieved by the authorities, and the acts of rebellion that inevi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies