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Attitudes 11 invited to a party by a friend of a friend. As she enters the hotel where the party is being held, she begins to ha ...
CHAPTER 2 Classifying Viewpoints: Conservative and Liberal Liberal and conservative are two terms that are often used to describ ...
Classifying Viewpoints 13 of advancement. He would rather live with the “devil he knows, than the devil he doesn’t.” The liberal ...
14 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking anew. Edmund Burke, many years ago, noted that to destroy an institution— and it takes a ...
Classifying Viewpoints 15 sensing and feeling aspect of his nature. Since Aristotle pro claimed reason as the element in which ...
Liberals tend to believe in freedom, relativity, and self-expres- sion. The freedom to experiment allows for the hoped-for progr ...
Classifying Viewpoints 17 tive leadership. Conservatives believe that ruling is a special skill which is learned by practice and ...
18 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking ties, any attempt by government to distribute wealth equally would be unnatural and bound ...
Classifying Viewpoints 19 THE WORLD VIEW There are many terms which describe how the conservative looks at the world. Caution— t ...
CHAPTER 3 Epistemology and Logic Over two thousand years ago Pontius Pilate uttered one of the most profound questions ever aske ...
Epistemology and Logic 21 This view contends that we cannot know truth, it is unknowable. Probably the most extreme Skeptic was ...
22 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking sense, a realistic theory of truth. The correspondence theory contends that if an idea sq ...
Epistemology and Logic 23 proaches to understanding the answer to the question, what is truth? Obviously there are others, some ...
An Introduction to Clearer Thinking consists of three statements, as follows: a) Major premise: All cows are females. b) Minor p ...
Epistemology and Logic 25 (d) Premises: The first two statements in a syllogism, the major premise containing the major term, th ...
26 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking Statement “A” form: “E” form: “I” form: “O” form: Forms of Categorical Statement in Deduc ...
Epistemology and Logic 2 7 Reference to the diagrams will show that a term whose circle is entirely shaded or entirely unshaded ...
An Introduction to Clearer Thinking premise. Neither premise is a universal statement. (4) Two negatives: Every syllogism must h ...
Epistemology and Logic 29 reasoning have been made explicit. Consider: All lazy students are underproducers. Therefore, Tim is a ...
30 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking The alternative syllogism offers in its major premise an alternative in the “either-or” ...
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