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400 word essay

your task is to find 3 examples of these fallacies in your social media feeds.  The easiest way to do this is to look at what the people you know (or even you!) posted or commented, rather than look for problems in articles posted. 

Do this for each of the 3 examples:

1. Copy and paste the comment/post in question

2. Write down and explain the logical fallacy that you're going to apply is (e.g. ad hominem - the person is attacked instead of what they say)

3. Explain why you think the comment can be said to be guilty of that logical fallacy. (e.g. Joe's comment is an ad hominem because...)


my 3 examples of social media posts are attached below . apply those to any of the to the fallacie handout below


ONLY FOLLOW THESE FALLACIES DON'T SEARCH FROM DIFFERENT WEBSITE

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Answer this essay prompt: "Knowledge & Understanding: Living Philosophically"

The reading assignments and discussions for the later four weeks have covered Ethics, Religious thought, Epistemology (rationalism vs empiricism & the Kantian compromise), and the impact these ideas have had on 20th and 21st century philosophy.

Write a 5-6 page essay as an extensive comparison of these contributions to philosophy. Propose an argument with premises that leads to a conclusion about how the methods of rationalism and empiricism contribute to the understanding of Ethics, God, and Knowing and how these theories help in discussing how the human mind benefits.

This essay must be a thorough exploration of the ideas of philosophical method and reason within the Western philosophical tradition. The submission should show evidence of comprehension of course reading assignments and class discussion.

The essay should be 56 pages of well-thought, thoroughly researched,

discussion 6b

Post engaging, thoughtful content
Share content that both reflects your understanding of the course material and makes appropriate applications beyond the assigned reading (insights, real-life examples).  Be sure to think of the posts as part of a larger conversation; ask/answer questions within the posts. Questions left unanswered may impact your score for that discussion.


Compose your responses in a word processing program
Consider using programs such as Word first; save this file to your computer or USB flash drive. Attach the file or copy and paste the text into the message area of the Discussion Board. Should there be an interruption in your Internet connection, you will not lose any work.


Word count
    * Initial posts must be greater than 250 words
    * Replies must be at least 75 words


No Fluff Zone
    * Please carefully review What is a Discussion Board  to thoroughly understand the def

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Reflect on what you have learned in this course about how to construct high-quality arguments for positions. Give an example of how the ability to think logically and to construct good arguments could help you in your career and your daily life. In what ways will the skill of being able to evaluate the quality of reasoning on all sides better enable you to discover what is true and to make better choices?

Finally, consider the argument you have been developing for your writing assignments. How have fairly considering multiple points of view helped you clarify your own perspective? What advice would you give to people to help them understand issues more clearly and objectively while being fair to all sides? Feel free to comment on any other values you have gained from this course so far.

Your journal entry must be at least 250 words. You do not need to follow APA Style for this journal entry, but you should proofread your work to eliminate errors of grammar and spelling.

Show you care

Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.
Each scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum.
Articulate (and then assess) the ethical solutions that can found using "care" (care-based ethics) and "rights" ethics to those problems.
Assessment must ask if the solutions are flawed, practicable, persuasive, etc.
What health care technology is involved in the situation?What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Explore such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
Say how social technologies such as blogs, crowdfunding, online encyclopedias can be used in either case. What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should b

Plato, Apology

Each student will submit a 2000 to 3000 word researched paper, using at least three (3) secondary sources and at least two of the required readings, on a question raised by the ancient Greek thought studied in the course. Students should discuss their topic with Dr. Muir before beginning to write their paper.

MIDTERM paper “HEDONISM”

Please submit a short paper (roughly 3 pages) on the following passage from J. S. Mill's paper "Hedonism". The passage begins with the paragraph near the top of pg. 13 of the edited volume by Shafer-Landau, "If I am asked what I mean by difference of quality in pleasures..." and continues to pg. 15, ending with "...though many in all ages have broken down in an ineffectual attempt to combine both."

Your work is due on Monday Oct. 12. The paper must be submitted on Canvas. It should be written in 12pt. Times New Roman. Longer is not better, but please polish your writing. As I mentioned in an earlier announcement, you can book an appointment with the OWLS Student Help Writing Workshop online. Do not submit the first draft! You are welcome to engage with secondary sources, but please cite them appropriately. In case of doubt, adopt a well-known citation format, like MLA or Chicago, for ex. The key is consistency of presentation. A good citation should indicate minimally: Author, T

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One of the advantages of learning logic and critical thinking is that it can benefit all areas of ones life. The ability to research all sides before arriving at a position on an issue, the humility to consider opposing points of view in a fair-minded way, the wisdom to evaluate the quality of reasoning for and against positions, the capacity to recognize and avoid logical fallacies, and the skill to be able to construct effective reasoning all can benefit us by helping us to arrive at positions that are most justified by the evidence (and therefore most likely to be true).

These habits, when applied, can also help us to make decisions based on a more comprehensive understanding of different points of view, to better appreciate other peoples perspectives, to be clearer and more persuasive in our reasoning, and to avoid making decisions that are not rationally justified. The discussion this week is designed to assist us in this process of applying critical thinking to our daily l

The Nature of Philosophy

INSTRUCTIONS:
This assignment consists of a short essay question, and some short logic questions. The main intent of these questions is to ensure that you have a sound grasp of the fundamentals of the material presented in this unit. The logic questions are intended to draw on some important logical concepts that will be relevant throughout the course. Although an understanding of basic logic terminology and argumentation is important in this course, logic for its own sake is not the focus of this course. As such, the short essay question should attract most of your attention with this assignment. There is a 3 to 4 page (1000 words) limit for the short essay question. As with all the short essay questions you will address in this course, Im not so concerned with whether you agree with a particular author or not. The quality of your answer is based on your exposition of the competing positions, your comparative analysis of those positions and, lastly, your argument in support of the

The Nature of Philosophy

INSTRUCTIONS:
This assignment consists of a short essay question, and some short logic questions. The main intent of these questions is to ensure that you have a sound grasp of the fundamentals of the material presented in this unit. The logic questions are intended to draw on some important logical concepts that will be relevant throughout the course. Although an understanding of basic logic terminology and argumentation is important in this course, logic for its own sake is not the focus of this course. As such, the short essay question should attract most of your attention with this assignment. There is a 3 to 4 page (1000 words) limit for the short essay question. As with all the short essay questions you will address in this course, Im not so concerned with whether you agree with a particular author or not. The quality of your answer is based on your exposition of the competing positions, your comparative analysis of those positions and, lastly, your argument in support of the