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State your name and provide a link to your blog. My name is Daniel Ledesma and my link is https://peacekeeping.school.blog/ What is your TOTAL word count? My TOTAL word count is 6045 Did you do everything on the blog checklist, on every blog? Quotes? Original examples? Personal application? I have quotes, original examples, and personal applicationContinue reading “Final Self Assessment”

David Hume makes an argument for the truth of Determinism in this article. His first main reason he gives for the truth of determinism is because of history. “Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history intorms us of nothing new or strange in this particular” (Hume). Determinism is theContinue reading “The Obviousness of the Truth of Determinism”

David Hume believes that the idea of self is false. He states “every person is just their own collection of perceptions acquired throughout their lives and constantly in a state of flux.“ His argument is that our identity is not our collection of perceptions but rather the bond felt between the collection of perceptions. HeContinue reading “Of Personal Identity”

“Unpredictability and teleology therefore coexist as part of our lives; like characters in a fictional narrative we do not know what will happen next, but none the less our lives have a certain form which projects itself towards our future. Thus the narratives which we live out have both an unpredictable and a partially teleologicalContinue reading “Story-telling Animals”

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. In this article, Descartes tackles the meditations on the first philosophy in which the existence of god and the distinction between mind and body are demonstrated. He first begins with his process in his search for knowledge. His first starts by waiting until he is goodContinue reading “Meditations on First Philosophy”

According to William James there are three forms of belief. The three being live, forced. or momentous. A live belief is one that comes from a place where all the options given for the belief were within the realm of possibility to the one making the decision to believe or disbelieve. An example of thisContinue reading “The Will To Believe”

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western World. In The Republic: Book X , Plato tackles “the idea of a bed” and the “beds in the world.” He makes it clear that there is a major difference between the two “things.”Continue reading “Beds in the World”

Preface: William Kingdon Clifford FRS was an English mathematician and philosopher and in this article he attempted to make an argument on what people should believe and how one should justify their own beliefs Reconstruction of an argument in Standard Form: All actions are influenced by our beliefs in some way Action based on unjustifiedContinue reading “The Ethics of Belief”

There are different fallacies and I will give my own original examples of the following twelve fallacies: 1) Begging the Question 2) Ad Hominem 3) Equivocation 4) Slippery Slope 5) Straw Man 6) Tu Quoque 7) Non-sequitur 8) False Dichotomy 9) Argument from ignorance 10) Red Herring 11) Anecdotal Evidence 12) Appeal to Authority. BeggingContinue reading “Different Fallacies”

Valid Argument With a False Conclusion: Cats can be Black Daniel is a cat Therefore Daniel is black. A sound Argument: Mammals are warm-blooded and have vertebrae. Humans are warm-blooded and have vertebrae. Therefore humans are mammals. A weak inductive Argument: I drive everyday and haven’t crashed. I haven’t hit any people with my carContinue reading “Different Forms of an Argument.”