1. Idols of the tribe-the bias of human beings to jump to conclusions based on what is new or strange rather than in time to understand what is true
he means that we judge things on what we see instead of what we really know about what we are placing judgement on.
2. Idols of the cave- creating individual biases through the educational system
3. Idols of the Market Place0-the language created to share knowledge (e.g) knowledge is more concered with winninh arguments than revealing truth
4. Idols of the theatre-the Christian West has given reverence to four or five Greek scholars and has ignored any other understanding of the world
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thomas Aquinas and His Five Ways
St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) was a Dominican preist, theologian, and philosopher. He developed rational arguments for the existence of God.
First Way: The Argument from Motion
He studied Aristotle, and thought objects were put in motion by some other object or force. He thought God was the mover
1. Nothing can move itself.
2. If every object in motion has a mover, then the first object in motion needed a mover.
3. This first mover is unmoved mover called God.
Hey look, I just lifed my arm. God has nothing to do with it, but my brain did ooooooo.
Second Way
He concluded that common sense observation tells us that no object created itself. Something had to have created it. God began the chain of existance.
1. There exist things that are caused by other hings.
2. Nothing can be the cause of itself
3. There can not be an endless string of objects casing other objects to exist
4. Therefore, there must be an uncaused first calle God.
Yes, there can be an endless string of objects causing other objects to exist, ever heard of reproduction?? lol
Third Way
This way defines two types of objects in the universe: contigment beings and necessary beings. A contingment being is an object that can not exist w/o necessary being causing its exitsane
1. Contingent beings can be contigent
2. Not every being can be contingent
3. There must exist a being which is necassary to cause contignet beings
4. This necessary being is God
hmm, well he just said everything has a creator, and in number 2 he said not every being can be contignet.
Fourth Way
Opinions.
Fifth Way
obersving the universe an nature.
Well the best one would at least have to be the fifth one. Because of course the universe works in a way that one can conclude taht is designed by an intelligent designer. Well if you think about, "something" must have created everything. I mean how can things just randomly pop out of no where. I mean if you are walking down the street you don't see a unicorn being born out of no where, or some random person
The worst is the fourth, because in vh1 they had this show called the top 100 greatest hard rock songs and Guns N Roses-Welcome to the Jungle was number 1, i mean thats a great song and it was in Grand Theft Auto. But then I thought either Motley Crue or Def Leopard or ACDC should have been number 1. But then that was my opinion. I mean things can be better than the other, but in a way, its equal, not in our eyes, but it really is. I mean of course not everyone likes what eachother likes, we might share simularities, but differences as well. Again, i think everything is equal, we just see it in our own perspective.
First Way: The Argument from Motion
He studied Aristotle, and thought objects were put in motion by some other object or force. He thought God was the mover
1. Nothing can move itself.
2. If every object in motion has a mover, then the first object in motion needed a mover.
3. This first mover is unmoved mover called God.
Hey look, I just lifed my arm. God has nothing to do with it, but my brain did ooooooo.
Second Way
He concluded that common sense observation tells us that no object created itself. Something had to have created it. God began the chain of existance.
1. There exist things that are caused by other hings.
2. Nothing can be the cause of itself
3. There can not be an endless string of objects casing other objects to exist
4. Therefore, there must be an uncaused first calle God.
Yes, there can be an endless string of objects causing other objects to exist, ever heard of reproduction?? lol
Third Way
This way defines two types of objects in the universe: contigment beings and necessary beings. A contingment being is an object that can not exist w/o necessary being causing its exitsane
1. Contingent beings can be contigent
2. Not every being can be contingent
3. There must exist a being which is necassary to cause contignet beings
4. This necessary being is God
hmm, well he just said everything has a creator, and in number 2 he said not every being can be contignet.
Fourth Way
Opinions.
Fifth Way
obersving the universe an nature.
Well the best one would at least have to be the fifth one. Because of course the universe works in a way that one can conclude taht is designed by an intelligent designer. Well if you think about, "something" must have created everything. I mean how can things just randomly pop out of no where. I mean if you are walking down the street you don't see a unicorn being born out of no where, or some random person
The worst is the fourth, because in vh1 they had this show called the top 100 greatest hard rock songs and Guns N Roses-Welcome to the Jungle was number 1, i mean thats a great song and it was in Grand Theft Auto. But then I thought either Motley Crue or Def Leopard or ACDC should have been number 1. But then that was my opinion. I mean things can be better than the other, but in a way, its equal, not in our eyes, but it really is. I mean of course not everyone likes what eachother likes, we might share simularities, but differences as well. Again, i think everything is equal, we just see it in our own perspective.
Adolf Hitler and his Hasty Generalizationsss
Ok, so today in class we read this text from Adolf Hitler, which he wrote in jail. We could tell that he was loosing his mind when he was writing this. He was some crazy dude. The definition of a hasty generalization is a conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence. If you guys are confused with this definiton, ima break it, up, it basically is something based on something that can't really be proven true. The cause of hasty generalization is by predjustices, which are judgments made before knowing all of the facts. For example: If you walk under a ladder then you are gonna get bad luck. Someone might have said that because they walked under a ladder and then got hit by a frisbe.
Faulty use of authority is attempts yo add creditability to a claim by citing the opinions of supposed experts. An example: I say, Death Metal is the best genre of music. Thats only my opinion, of course not everyone in the world is gonna agree with me, but myself, and some other awsome people. See I did it again! They might only be awsome to me 0_o.
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause means after this therefore because of this. The first event caused the second. Example: I got in a fight with my mother, therefore I got sad, so I started drinking until I passed out so I wouldnt have to remember the fight. Getting into a fight caused me to drink.
False Analogy is a false analogy when an analogy is descriptive, but does not offer proof of a connection, Two things are being compared. Example: Obama is the new black. lol enough said, you all get me.
Ad Hominem is "agianst the man" yo. Example: She shops at hollister, is preppy and is the captin of the cheerleading team, what a dumb bimbo! haha! This time it is against the preppy cheerleader.
Flase dilema is an argument poses an either it situation Example: You can either do your math homework or be barefoot pregnant in the kitchen! So do your math homework and bring your book! Props Mr. Steffen! yeeeeaaah!
Slippery Slope is simular to post hoc, an arguer commits te slippery slope fallacy when he claims that talking a first step will ivevitably cause a second with evidence. Example: Makin abortion legal will lead to murder of the old man...?
Begging the Quesion is aruguer assumes that the question being argued has already been proved. Example: Men should not join the feminist club because they are not women.
Straw Man is a fallacy that consists of an attack on a view similar to, but not the same as the one you opponent holds. Example: I think global warming should end because I don't like polar bears dying.
yessss sirrrr!
Faulty use of authority is attempts yo add creditability to a claim by citing the opinions of supposed experts. An example: I say, Death Metal is the best genre of music. Thats only my opinion, of course not everyone in the world is gonna agree with me, but myself, and some other awsome people. See I did it again! They might only be awsome to me 0_o.
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause means after this therefore because of this. The first event caused the second. Example: I got in a fight with my mother, therefore I got sad, so I started drinking until I passed out so I wouldnt have to remember the fight. Getting into a fight caused me to drink.
False Analogy is a false analogy when an analogy is descriptive, but does not offer proof of a connection, Two things are being compared. Example: Obama is the new black. lol enough said, you all get me.
Ad Hominem is "agianst the man" yo. Example: She shops at hollister, is preppy and is the captin of the cheerleading team, what a dumb bimbo! haha! This time it is against the preppy cheerleader.
Flase dilema is an argument poses an either it situation Example: You can either do your math homework or be barefoot pregnant in the kitchen! So do your math homework and bring your book! Props Mr. Steffen! yeeeeaaah!
Slippery Slope is simular to post hoc, an arguer commits te slippery slope fallacy when he claims that talking a first step will ivevitably cause a second with evidence. Example: Makin abortion legal will lead to murder of the old man...?
Begging the Quesion is aruguer assumes that the question being argued has already been proved. Example: Men should not join the feminist club because they are not women.
Straw Man is a fallacy that consists of an attack on a view similar to, but not the same as the one you opponent holds. Example: I think global warming should end because I don't like polar bears dying.
yessss sirrrr!
Galileoooo's Daughter
Ok, so right now I have the song Bohemiam Rhapsody stuck in my head lol, the Galileo Galileo GALILEO! part haha its funny. Well enough about Galileo, his daughter played a very important role in his life. When he was really ill, she took care of his finances, made him medication, and she also edited his writings. She did not know a lot about astrology, but somehow she understood what her father wrote. Father daughter bond yess. Anyways, she basically had his back when Pope Urban was preoccupied with the 3o years war and the church was out to get him. Maria Cileste was a nun, she chose to live her life in poverty, they didnt have the material things, didn't live lives in gluttony or greed. They were very humble. Since the nuns were willing to do that, they were very dedicated to the church.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
Ok, where do I START! In my opinion I do not believe in any God or Jesus or anything. But I do believe there is something that created us all. Its nothing we can see or hear but its something thats there. Well yeah its something. I also believe that this "thing" created everything that has come to be, the earth for example. The Big Bang did not just occur out of no where, something must have created it, and something created us. We did not evolve from monkeys because we do not share the DNA that they have. What i believe in is so random, but it makes sense to me so I don't really care. I have nothing against teaching children in school about intelligent design or religion. I think that schools should teach both, and it is up the the child to pick what his or her beliefs are. No one should decide, but the scholars themselves, I mean we are the future, so why can't we decide what we want to learn or not...In my opinion I think that parents should do the same, teach kids of thier beliefs vs other ones, and see what they chose. A child should be free to explore and think about the mysteries of this world, and usually religion tends to hold that back. Take catholisism for example, they arent allowed to question anything, so that makes them very close minded, when they should be allowed to question all they want because it shows they are using thier brain! Instead of blind faith that they have no proof for.
DON'T BE AFRAID TO GO AGAINST ANYTHING!
DON'T BE AFRAID TO GO AGAINST ANYTHING!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Deductive Logics, Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, & Syllogisms
Syllogism:
All females are monsters
I am a female
I am a monster!!
Modus Ponens :
If someone writes a love song they are in love.
I wrote a love song, because i am in love.
Modus Tollens:
Since a scary dog chased me, I ran, If I didnt run the scary dog wasnt chasing me.
All females are monsters
I am a female
I am a monster!!
Modus Ponens :
If someone writes a love song they are in love.
I wrote a love song, because i am in love.
Modus Tollens:
Since a scary dog chased me, I ran, If I didnt run the scary dog wasnt chasing me.
Claims
Ok, today in philosophy class we learned about the types of claims and watched Apollo 13! The first type of claim is Claims of Fact, which is that is asserts that something is or will be true, for example I could be telling someone that a mad serial killer set his house on fire, and its a fact because it is on the news and there are wanted posters of him everywhere. There is also Claims of Value which is an attempt to prove the action, belief, or condition is right or wrong. Like I could say Death Metal is the best genre of music in the world! But thats my opinion people could disagree or agree with me. We also got Claims of Policy, yay! It argues that certain conditions should exist. Like if i said Animal testing should be banned everywhere! I am saying the word SHOULD which is a sign of this. Yaya!!
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