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Natural Laws and Accidental Uniformities
Natural Laws and Accidental Uniformities
The Laws of Nature
Most empiricists adopted the Regularity View of Laws: laws are cosmic regularities. According to the humean tradition, there are only regularities in nature, that is, sequences of event-types, which happen in constant conjunction: whenever one occurs, it is invariably ...
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Aristotle relationship between Rhetoric and Truth/Knowledge
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Aristotle relationship between Rhetoric and Truth/Knowledge
Aristotle's Concoet of Rhetoric and Truth/ Knaowledge
This paper presents and discusses the Aristotle concept of relationship between Rhetoric and Truth or Knowledge and its impact and influence on the society today. The important moral problems that reflects ...
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Platonic concept of 'forms'
Discuss why the Platonic Socrates characterizes philosophy as 'practicing for dying' in the Phaedo
There were almost thirty dialogues written by Plato. He wrote Phaedo almost in the beginning of his middle period. The Phaedo is considered to be the master piece in the literature of ...
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Socrates
Socrates
PART 1
Socrates and His Inspiring Ideas
Socrates was born in Athens, Greece in 469 B.C. He was a Greek philosopher, the exemplar of the examined life, best known for his dictum that only such a life is worth living. Although he wrote nothing, his thoughts and way of life had a ...
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Appearance vs. Reality
Appearance vs. Reality
Introduction
In this paper appearance and reality has been discussed and the question asked by Bertrand Russell has been highlighted, which is, “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain no reasonable man could doubt it?” furthermore, the way in which the two philosophers ...
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Critical Essay Medical Ethics Re Confidentiality
Critical Essay Medical Ethics Re Confidentiality
Medical diagnosis and treatment produce information useful to direct patient care and a variety of other social circumstances. It has been a traditional precept of medical ethics, however, that confidentiality in health care is the best way to protect the ...
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Should abortion be legal?
Should abortion be legal?
Introduction
Abortion tends to be interpreted as forcefully ending the pregnancy by driving out fetus from Ovary, resulting in death. In previous and old time, abortion has been a common phenomenon, using herbal techniques, sharpened tools, physical trauma and other traditional methods. As the ...
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Article review of J.L Mackie of The Problem of Evil
Article review of J.L Mackie of The Problem of Evil
Introduction
J. L. Macknie in his article states that one of the most common difficulties against the existence of God, and particularly against His Providence, is the existence of evil in the ...
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Explain and evaluate Kant's account of genius.
Explain and Evaluate Kant's Account of Genius
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The word genius refers to the sense of “native intellectual power of an exalted type” dates from 1749, and it was during the middle and later years of the eighteenth century that this term began to be used, ...
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SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY
Social Contract Theory
Social Contract Theory
Introduction
Social contract theory is an approach to questions of political legitimacy and obligation that seeks to ground claims to sovereignty on an agreement among people to form a political community. Social contract theory was the dominant approach to such questions in early ...